The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-07-22
NEW SEWERS AND
y STREET PAVING
City Council Starts on a Campaign
of Improvements.
WORK OPENS ON SIXTH STREET
Provisions viii be Made to Care for
Flood OF Water That Gathers
at the intersection Of a
Avenue.

| Oskaloosa has made a start in the
right direction along new line of
lsewer Improvement The first OF a
lsystem of storm water sewers to care
for emergency or surface water will
be constructed on North Sixth street
north of A avenue to care for the
floods of water that are poured onto
this locality in great floods
The new sewer will be of large tile
twenty to twenty-four inches in di-
ameter but it will not be laid at a
great depth. 1t will care for the water
that comes to the intersection OF A
avenue and Sixth street from three
directions, from as far south on Sixth
street as Third or Fourth avenue,
from the east along A avenue and the
vicinity of Third and Fourth street
on the west All of this drainage
| carries great food to one point with
the result that the present conditions
cannot care for it If the rainfall is
| heavy. The water has washed the
street and the side walks out and has
made great lakes at the intersection
of b avenue and Sixth street. The
details of the sewer are to be left 40
the discretion of the city engineer
! Mr.. Bridges, who is instructed to pro-
coed at once with the work before any
| further damage is done the street A
cement walk is ordered in on the west
of Sixth street from A avenue to the
north side OF B avenue. The new
walk is the result of the new sewer
| without which it would have been inn
possible as any walk or other inn
provement put in is always washed
out by the flood of water following
rains.
| This bit of improvement is the en-
tering wedge for other surface water
sewers. Other districts of the city
need the work sadly and the value
of the first work will demonstrate the
ACCESSIBILITY of putting in a greater
quantity. Storm sewers are as much
of necessity as sanitary sewers but
they must remain separate
Street Paving Ordered.
| Oskaloosa will pave this season.
About one-half mile of two course
brick paving will be laid. The season
may be somewhat late when the work
is completed, but the resolution of me-
cessity has been passed by the city
council and the work will be started
as soon as the preliminaries can be
| attended to in the right way.
| The consideration of the paving was
! taken up at length by the city coun-
nt nF
and the result of the examination and
the report OF the committees was as
| follows:
South Third street will be paved
from High avenue south three blocks
to connect with the pavement of Third
avenue
South Second street will be paved
distance Of two blocks between
First and Third avenues.
Fourth avenue will be paved on one
block to connect the paving of First
and Market streets.
A avenue will be paved between
Eighth and Ninth streets, and Ninth
street will be paved between ave
nue. and High avenue. The city will
have one intersection at this place,
! making continuous pavement
! around the block to connect High and
A avenues.
The law requires in the case of the
passing of a resolution of public ne
cessity, a notice of twenty days by
four publications to the property own
ers concerned. These then have two
weeks time to appear and make OBJ
lection to the proposed Improvement.
The meeting to hear the protests of
property owners. if such there be,will
be held on the evening of August %.
After this time advertisements for
bids will be published and certain
time must elapse before the bids can
| be opened.
The curb for all of this paving will
be OF cement with a cement gutter.
All water and gas connections under
the pavement must be made before
the paving is laid and service pipe
must be of lead