The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-22
CITY TO TEST
OUTLET PIPES
Means Much to West Side If
They Can Make Sewer
Connections.

The pumping station at Seventh West
and Eighth North, which viii put the in
terccpting sewer in operation. will be
opened and the pumps started on Satur-
day afternoon. The mayor. city council
men and members OF the board of works
will meet at tine Wilson hotel at 2-5g
o'clock and visit the work, which City
Engineer Kelsey will start on their ar
rival at the station.
Yesterday the Campbell Building COM
pany executed a waiver of any right to
claim an acceptance Of the work on the
outlet pipes through the beginning of OPP
erations at the station and the company's
surety Joined in the document. The waiver
provides that the city may operate the
pumps for four months or less to deter
mine If the work IL SatlSt aCtory and that
in the meantime the company which laid
the outlet pipe viii not be held responsible
for the SO a day forfeiture for overtime.
This forfeiture will already amount to
nearly $3.50.
When the waiver was executed yesteT-
day the mayor at once gave the order to
City Engineer Kelsey to start the pumps.
This was ratified by the city council at
special meeting last evening. Some OF
the councilmen opposed the starting OF
the pumps at all and Councilman +. r.
Black wanted the limit OF time changed to
sixty DAYS. Approval of the mayors ac
ton passed however, Black, HOdgson,
Holley and Murdoch voting against it.
If the pipes hold water il Will mean the
use in a few weeks of fifteen miles OF
sewer now lying idle. II will mean that
people in the southwestern part of the city
who'll have been prevented for months from
making sewer connections will be able to
do SO.
There is. however. a strong feeling that
the wood stave outlet pipe will never hold
water. and that the work may have to be
done over again fortnight ago it was
reported that there were Twenty-Five leaks
in this pipe. At the meeting Of the board
of works Friday night A Campbell, pres
ident Of the contracting company, admit
ted that the leaks were not stopped, and
that his men were looking Tor some OF
them. The starting of the pumps Is de
signed to get rid of some of the water
which now hampers the contractor and
thus enable him to find and stop the
leaks.
There are two Of the big pumps each
capable Of pumping 400 gallons a minute
or Of sending through the big 24-inch pipe
ten second feet Of water.
The machinery at the pumping station
is now in readiness for the work to begin.
Had the pipes been ordered started a week
ago Engineer Kelsey would have been in
a quandary for il now transpires that he
has had Il force of men working night and
DAY Strengthening a bent pinion- But OF
this the board of works knew nothing, so
ne has had the laugh on that body
The experiment of starting to pump
water through pipes admitted to be in bad
condition is one that the west side people
are watching with more interest than is
usually displayed with regard to city
work.
After the pumps have been operated for
a few days there will be some work for
James Kennedy, the contractor who built
the interCeDting sewer. There are num-
Der Of buIkhesds in the iutercepting sewer
part Of the work that it viii be necessary
TO remove. but both engineer and contrac-
tor say that this can be done on snort
notice.