Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-02-17

plated portions Of the city of Nor
ris, from which, ordinarily the storm
water flows onto any portion Of the
city Of Morris: for example, a large
part Of the east half of section 35,
and accordingly the Sublette system
of sewerage selects Atlantic avenue
as the common center for the whole
city and provides for constructing
therein, its entire length south Of
Tenth street and substantially two
thousand feet beyond the south ex-
tremity thereof, main sewer for the
use Of the whole city to be con
structed OF the cOstliest kind OF sewer
brick laid in Portland cement begin
ming with an inside diameter of
tWenty-four inches at Tenth street and
increasing gradually to an inside
diameter of nearly four feet at the
outflow thereof, with two man holes
to each block the entire length of
Atlantic avenue, and with the neces-
sary sub-main sewers of the city of
capacity corresponding Herewith, to
construct which system of sewerage,
would cost, as we think we are we'll
advised, around s75,00000, and its
operation after construction, compared
with the cost of operation of a sani-
tary system of sewerage, such as we
shall hereinafter recommend, would be
needlessly expensive; and it is there
fore our very confident belief and we
unitedly and unanimously recommend,
that no further consideration be given
to any thot of adopting or construct
ing in the city of Morris the Sub
lette system of sewerage. We unan-
imously recommend that it be utterly
and absolutely rejected as involving
unnecessary expenditure, an expendi-
ture quite beyond the present means
of the city of Morris.
Thru the medium of an advertise
ment published in the Engineering
News Of New York City, We early
got into correspondence with a large
number Of sanitary civil engineers by
which We mean civil engineers eSper-
fenced in the matter of sewerage and
sewerage systems, all of whom with
no exception, have advised us that
few or no country cities of less than
five thousand inhabitants now a days
undertake to construct or operate
what are known as combined sewer
systems for the reason that they are
needlessly expensive in the cost of
their construction and corresponding
ly needlessly expensive in the cost
of their subsequent operation; and
that practically universally what are
known and denominated sanitary |
sewer systems are nowadays, almost |
universally constructed and operated !,
in all such cities and even in larger
cities, leaving the matter of taking
care of storm water drainage, when |
ever that must be necessarily looked |
tenn of storm water drainage adapted
to, and taking advantage of, the ma
tural storm water drainage channels, /
the lay of the land, so to say, of the
townsite, thereby materially reducing !
the cost of construction as well as
the cost of subsequent maintenance
and operation, and accordingly we
have determined that a sanitary sew
er system in the city of Morris will I
be best adapted to, and will bestl
serve, the immediate as well as the +
future needs of the city of Morris
and that it will be feasible for the /
city OF Morris to undertake the con-
strueiion cf that sort Of d sever
system without any further delay;
and accordingly, we present herewith,
ground plan Of a sanitary system