The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-08-15
COMMITTEE DIDN'T
SUBMIT A REPORT
NO SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING HELD
Things Seem to he Running Along
Smoothly ON the Sewer-RepOrt
Being Prepared.

that meeting of the city council was
to be held Tuesday evening, when the
matter of the sewer trouble would be
sifted to the bottom and exposed in all
it's lights by n report of the special
committee from the council at this
meeting. In the evening, however,
Mayor Reed stated that there would
be no meeting, and that the UNDER
standing that one was to be held was
erroneous He said the council turned
the whole thing over to the committee,
and was willing for them to run af-
fairs as long as they were able to do
so without having trouble with the
sewer contractor or city engineer.
Things were running along smoothly,
he stated, and there was no reason to
expect n council meeting before the
next regular day. Monday. August 20.
At this time the committees report
will be received.
Following is the report made to the
council by Dr. Fell, who was employed
al consulting engineer on the sewer
work:
North Yakima, Aug. 13. 1906.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council of the City Of North Yakima:
Examination and report on sewer
construction now under way in the
city of North Yakima, Wash, by Con-
sulting Engineer Geo. E. Fell, NJ. d..
F r. NJ. S, formerly assistant city
sanitary engineer in construction of
sewers of the city of Buffalo, n. Y.
Authorized by the common council of
the City of North Yakima, Aug. 10,
1906.
The system of sewers now being con-
structed consists of two entirely sep
arate and distinct projects
Yakima Avenue System-First: That
known as the Yakima avenue system,
beginning at Yakima river. running.
westerly on Yakima avenue, and other
streets and alleys and covering terri
tory for sewage on Yakima avenue and
northerly of same. Some 2275 feet of
this sewer, onsisting OF 16-inch wood
pipe, has already been constructed UNI
der the supervision of City Engineer
A. A. Nicol. by the contractor. John
Gilligan. 4 series of levels taken by
myself Aug. IL, 1906, has satisfied me
to the exact grade provided by the plan
and specifications provided by the city.
Beech Street Systematic second
project comprises the construction of a
sewer system for sewage on Beech
street at the southern limit of the mu-
nieipality 1t extends from the YalSi-
ma river to Reed street with the eX-
teption Of about 1000 feet already
completed at the river end) and covers
the territory extending northerly to
Yakima avenue. The contract for this
work is also In the hands OF Contractor
Gnligan and under supervision of City
Engineer Nicol.
The plans and specifications for the
Beech street sewer provided for the
construction of 16-ineh wooden pipe
sewer. beginning at a point about 1000
connecting with an old l4-inch sewer,
which enters into Yakima river.
This new 16-inch wood sewer was TO
run westerly on a virtually level grade
for about 1000 feet 1t then connected
with manhole, at which point tn
grade was raised about 212 feet and
continued westerly as an 1S-inch tile
sewer to Sixth street. and from Six3h
street as a 15-inch, 12-ineh and 10
inch tile sewer to Reed street.
Sixteenth inch Wood Sewer-About 40
feet of this 16-inch wood pipe sewer
was constructed at the grade provided
in the original plans. BY consent of
the council, or a committee represent
ing it. the grade was then raised two
feet and a manhole constructed at the
change of grade by the contractor at
his expense. 1t was stated that owing
to the large quantity of sub-irrigation
water in the trench. the original depth
of the sewer being 16 feet at this point,
it was practically impossible to con-
struct the remaining stretch of this
16-inch sewer at the grade as laid
down in the Specifications. On the
raised grade of two feet the remaining
$50 feet of 16-inch sewer was com
pleted to the point where the 1S-inch
tile sewer began.
Eighteen-inch Tile Sewer Change OF
Grade-And here arose the condition
which called for another slight eleva-
tion of grade, and so important was 1t
from an engineering standpoint II was
1ustihable and necessary. The 16-inch
wood sewer at westerly end was vir-
tually at the same grade as the IS
inch tile sewer running into IT, Had
the original grade been followed, the
wood sewer would have run dry and
within few years rotted away. Had
weir been placed in the manhoie at
the connection point, so as to insure
constant immersion of the wood pipe
without change of grade) a setback
of dead water would have existed in
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