The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
EAST SIDE SEWER
Plans for q Big One Have
Been Made.
viii Be Brought Before the
City Council.
ONE OF THE LARGEST.
Estimated Cost Is Nearly One
Hundred Fifty Thousand.
Are Upwards of $500 Lots in
Proposed District.
ONE OF THE LARGEST.

The proposition OF building a sewer
i'm the Second ward will be brought up
at the next regular meeting of the
council which is set for November 6.
The construction of the sewer will
involve an expenditure of upwards of
S136,8S5.36. This will mean one of
the largest pieces of sewer construc-
ton ever undertaken in Topeka. 1t
will take in a territory about IA
blocks wide by the same number Of
blocks in length. The western
boundary will extend to the city
limits. while the southern limits viii
end at Twelfth street; it will extend
northward to the river. The outlet
of the sewer Will be about four blocks
east of the A. II. & S. F. railroad
bridge over the Kansas river. The
sewer viii rank in size with the
largest in the city and the main sewer
viii be Of the regulation six foot size.
The main branch OF the sewer viii
lead from the corner Of Tenth avenue
and the Shunganungas thence east on
Locust street to Fifth street and down
Fifth street to Chandler street, down
Chandler street to Third street, after
traverstng Third street to Branner it
turns uOrthWard on Branner to Chase
avenue. On Chase avenue it con-
tinues theastWardly to q point OPP
pOsite Locust street where it empties
into the river. The greater portion
of this distance the sewer is con-
structed on a basis Of six feet. Fifth
and Chandler streets is the point
where it cuts down to a sixty inch
sewer, at Eighth street it reduces to
thirty inches. Another branch runs
from the main sewer down Chandler
street to Eighth avenue, this is a three
foot sewer. The other lateralS vary
from q inches to Is, II, 10 and 8
inches in size.
There are upwards of $500 lots
comprised in the benefit district
which win be formed. The approx
mate cost per lot viii be $32, and
the A. T. & S. r will have to stand
for 1888 lots, which is the number
comprised in the yards of the rail-
road
sThe approximate cost will be
about $32," said City Engineer Nc
Cabe Saturday. Owe have taken in
a number of small blocks since the
original estimate was made. This en-
1arges the scope of the territory, but
the cost of material has gone up and
the ratio per lot of the cost viii re-
main about the same. The work is a
very necessary one. The conditions
are such that a sewer is almost in
dispensable in that part of the city"
The problem of draining the district
east of the Santa F'e tracks has all
ways been a difhcuN one. With each
heavy rainfall water acCumulateS in
pools in the low districts and stands
there until artificial drainage is re-
sorted to. The ground is porous. and
this fact makes the sanitary condition
more dangerous. This would be elimi-
mated with the presence of a sewer
such as is outlined. Contamination
of the wells and the drinking water
has been one Of the dreaded things
in that part Of town. Fortunately the
inhabitants have escaped anything
which resembIed an epidemic, but the
city board of health is not guarantee
ing that immunity will be enjoyed
with the lack of proper drainage.
The sewer project was introduced about
q year and q half ago, but no decisive
action was taken owing to marked OBJ
lection on some of the property owners
who did not take to any increase in their
taxes The matter was simply referred to
the council committee on sewers and it
lies there at this time. A motion will
probably be put IN the council to either
recall it from the committee for discus
sion or a resolution will be introduced
calling for some recommendation from
the committee on the proposition
o. Swanson a property owner in the
Second ward, is heading the agitation
which is being made in favor of the con-
struction of the sewer.
Residents in the Fifth ward living in
Martin and Dennis addition and QuintOn
Heights are also strongly considering the
advisability of constructing a sewer
which VIII drain the district south of Fiji
teenth street and west Of Western ave
nue.. The proposed sewer will be con
nected probably with the new completed
district "a That district is rapidly build
ing M" said Councilman S. r. Howe
Saturday, and we feel the need of a
sewer out there. I am convinced that this
is the only thing which keeps a large
number of people from settling there that
and the absence of water are the two
in the water mains in that part of town
we are going after the sewer"