Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-12-23
A SANITARY
SEWER ONLY
WOULD COST 100000 FOR THE
WHOLE CITY.
Engineer L. Q. Wolff. of ST. Paul,
fleets with sewer Committee and
Advocates the Building of Sani-
tary Sewer Only, Leaving Storm
Water Sewer to be Built Later
Separately.

L. P. Wolff, of the engineering
firm of Loweth & Wolff, of St. Paul,
was in the city on Wednesday and
met with the sewer committee. He
recommends that the city abandon
any attempt to build sewer
that will take care of both the san
itary sewage and storm water, as in
tended by Engineer Sublette's plans,
and instead build only sanitary
sewer, leaving the storm water to be
taken care of by surface drains,
which may latter sbe supplemented
by storm water sewer.
Mr.. Wolff brought with him plans
of several sewer systems which he
had designed, in some of which the
difficulties to be met were much the
same as they are in Morris. The
installation of sanitary sewers alone
has been satisfactory in these other
towns.
Mr.. Wolff would use the Sublette
grades for the most part, but ia-
stead of putting in brick sewer
on Atlantic avenue, he would use
ordinary sewer pipe, the largest
being Is inches in diameter, decreas-
ing to II inches where the main
sewer branches at Fourth street,
and to s inches on the lateral sewers
This would not be large enough to
take care of storm water, but it could
take care of subsol drainage, and to
accomplish this, Mr.. Wolff would
lay drain tile in the same trench
with the sewer pipe, and either empty
these drain tile into the sewer at
each manhose, or carry them along
to separate outlet. The cost of putt
ing in these draia tile would be
small.
For taking care of the storm water
he would lay seperate system of
surface drains or sewer which would
follow the natural lay of the land,
which would mean that the storm
water would for the most part be
carried to the old lake.
Mr.. Wolff considered it impossible,
to drain the sanitary sewage into the
old lake, for the reason that it is
necessary to go below fhe level of
the lake in order to get the proper |!
grade, and for the further reason |
that the septic tahk should not be |
placed 80 near the city. He does
not make extravagant claims for the
septic tank, but says that it will
purify sewage OILY fifty per cent,
and will prevent its being. nuisance.
He would locate the septic tank as
In the Sublette plans, at the southern
end of town.
Regarding the all important
matter of cost, Mr.. Wolff was able to
give very definite information. He
had the bids of contractors On simi-
lar work, and basing his estimates
on these bids, stated to the COM
mittee that the septic tank and
main sewer up to Fourth street
would cost about $1,000, that the
sewer for the remainder Of Atlantic
avenue and on Pacific avenue would
be about $l 90 foot and the later
ais Is cents a foot. To sewer Allan
tic and Pacific avenue and u blocks
Of latterais on the East side and IL
blocks on the west side would cost .
about $4,000. This is more than
would be put in this year, and the {
sewers that are especially needed p
could be put in for $4,000. ii
The yisi+ of Mr. Wolff was especi-
lily useful in giving to those inter :
'sted much definite information, and
sives added assuran, that a sewer
will be build next year.