The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-02-28
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SEWERS
Thus far four articles have been pre-.
sented for insertion in the town warrant
relating to the construction of sewers.
One of these Is on North avenue plains,
another on East Leavitt street, third
on Factory street and fourth from the
vicinity of the Park school to connect
with the Milburn street sewer.
The sewer first mentioned was called
for by the residents of that portion of
North avenue, North of Jewett street,
at the last town meeting. At the pre-
sent time there is no sewer on North
avenue. but short distance beyond the
top of the hill somewhere in the vicinity
of the corner of Prospect street The
conditions as to the drainage are very
bad above that point and the residents
of that section claim that In the spring
the highway is often practically i'm
passable, the water gathering there to
from one to two feet in depth 1t Is not
practical TO construct "A sewer down
North avenue, connecting with the one
already LAID at Prospect street, as this is
now below the capacity for the actual
needs of the territory it has to drain. 1t
IS therefore proposed to connect an in
dependent system, to drain Cowett and
Cemetery streets and adjacent portions
of North avenue, discharging some into
gulley in the rear of the Catholic ceme-
terry, which has natural drainage to
Cold Brook. The main line of this
sewer, that is from the western end of
emetery street back to the gulley,
something like 1900 feet, should be of
twelve inch pipe, as it will eventually
drain a large area. The size of the pipe
on North avenue and the other streets
mentioned could be of less size. The
cost for the portion of this system which
it is now proposed to build would be
about SO 900.
The sewer asked for on East Leavitt
street is to drain that throughfare and
would be laid from the easterly end to
connect with what is known as North
avenue overflow" little to the east of
the junction of East Leavitt and Bush
streets. This North avenue overflow
was built to take care of the drainage
which in the spring season and in times
of heavy rains exceeds the capacity of
the North avenue sewer. It's course is
from North. In the vicinity of Maple ST.,
across lots, to the Kennebec river,
where it discharges in the rear of the re.
sidence of E. n. Merrill. 1t is rightly
located and of sufficient capacity TO re-
ceive the drainage of the sewer no. pro-
posed for East Leavitt street.
Factory street seeks sewer to pro-
vide for drainage on the southerly end,
from the extremity of the street to the
sewer already laid on Hathaway street,
into which it would discharge. 1t is one
straight line of 200 feet and could be of
eight inch pipe. The cost would be
comparatively small.
The fourth drainage proposition ia
virtually for the extenton of the Mil
burn street sewer system. commenced
in 1905 and continued last season, TO
reach additional area The Milburn
street system contemplated additional
calls upon it's capacity and the pipe is of
sufficient size to admit of the connection
now proposed or of others which may
be found necessary in the future. The
object of the sewer proposed at this
time seems to be to provide drainage
for Poplar street, between the Water.
Vile road and the Maine Central tracks.
The distance from Milburn street to the
point proposed for the termination on
Poplar street is about 700 feet. This
could be of eight inch pipe and the esti-
mated cost of the completed sewer would
be something like 500.