The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-09-23
MAY SEWER
ALL THE HILL
PROTECT PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY
Many Improvements Ordered by the
Council, Including Cement Walks
and TRADING State Street.

At the council. meeting Monday
evening the Health Committee made
the following report, which was &C.
cepted: .sa.t r.Is.t .
Your Committee on Health to
which was referred the demands OF
the State Health Board In reference
to the publication Of the water supply
now furnished to the City of Hood
River, respectfully report as follows: ::
We have made an extensive ex-
animation Of the conditions surround
Ing the present source of supply by
the city health officer, and the reports
to us as follows:
That there are come sixty elk wells,
cesspools and unsanitary reservoirs
within that space Immediately adjoin-
Ing and which drain into the city
spring. All of this Is without the
sewer districts OF the City of Hood
River, within which there is not a
single unoonnected oloset or oesspool,
( with the city sewer. H.-r .,.t.
We also report that at the intersec-
tion of Twelfth and May Streets
there Is irrigating water running In
an open ditch north from the inter-
section of said streets, which after
leaving said intersection, flowing
north, empties and drains into an
area Immediately south OF and tri
butary to the present city spring.
This after running through filthy
barn and chicken yard, a great por-
tion of the filth collected thereby be.
Ing discharged into the present water
supply of the city.
We recommend that this condi-
tion be changed Immediately, or as
| soon as POSSIBLE, SO that this water,
and all other water draining from this
area, be collected in pipes and car
ried 10 such reeepticles to the north
beyond any possible point OF contain
ination with the city spring.
There are but two remedies for the
conditions existing to the south of
the city spring in our opinion: first
either to demand and enforce the
regulation that all that portion OF the
CITY south OF the city spring, which
Ia not within sewer district OF said
city, be severed, or that all inhabit-
ants Of that portion of the city be
required to build cement vaults for
the preserving and disposition OF sew-
efage, at q point where the same will
not possibly contsminate the water
supply. We deem 1t inadvisable at
this time to require these people to
90 to the preliminary and indefinite
expense OF constructing these tenn.
porary vaults, when no doubt In the
mar fntuNa thnu mill ha pa,.sniEaA In
build sewers. We therefore recon-
mend that all this portion of the city
be ordered severed at an early date.
We realize In making this report
that the compliance herewith will
work hardship upon the residents
OF that portion OF the hill embraced
within said boundaries, but there
seems to bernI other reasonable
solution OF the question under the In
struetions of the State Health Board.
A petition signed by about fifty per
cent OF the residents on State street,
ID the district proposed TO be improy-
ed, asked that State street be graded
the iull width Of the street between
Sixth aud Front streets. Judge Hem
dsrson was present and spoke In favor
OF the imp ovement and urged that
the same be done. Ii was 30 ordered
and the street committee insti ucted
to prepare an ordinance covering the
same. iina erf . fra 'ta
The street committee reported In
favor of electric lights at the corner
OF Ninth and Cascade and In front of
4. h. Broaius' residence on Prospect
avenue.
A protest signed by many Of the
hill residents against changing the
name Of Pleasant View avenue to
Eugene street, was referred to the
street committee.
A communication was received from
the Commercial Club asking that
more hitching racks be provided, aud
the same was referred to the marshal
with instruotions to put up the hitch
Ing racks IL he could find places to
put them.
4 communication was received from
l.. N. Blowers asking that the side
walks on Oak street west Of his new
building be put down to grade. The
matter was covered In an ordinance
requiring cement walks put down
along that block as we'll as in front
OF the building occupied by Grams
| store and Lane q Gibbons. 'f"
The sewer committee we're instruct
ed to look into the matter OF ordering
sewer In that portion of the hill
district which drains into the private
water system. The Farmers Irrigat-
ing company will also be ordered to
pipe the water now baing delivered to
the Niokelsen property, past the lo~-
or spring or shut off the water.