The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17
MANY COMPLAIN
At LONG DELAY
weStsiderS File Petitions for
Connections With Sewer
LateralS.
CONDITION OF OUTLET PIPE
pUMPs MAY START THIS WEEK
At INTERPRETING STATION.


T. J. Dininny, city attorney, has pre-
JARED a waiver Of the rights of the
EsmnbeU Building company which may
h. used if the city starts the pumps at
~ new intercepting sewer station This
LIVER Mr.. Campbell of the contract
We compsnv Yesterday announced himself
I'd willing to sign. There is a possibility
t5at the pumps will be started this week,
,bouzh some who have inspected the
,-ori are prepared TO wager that the
eutfet pipe as laid will never be sue
There have been many conflicting state
-,ents. REGARDING this work. The intercept
80 sewer was finished many months
40 The pumping station has been built
and the machinery installed. In line with
the methods of the city, an engineer was
tirr9 and given charge before the work
vras ready for opening and before the
M-a-S,bi-erv was really in 1t is the 1850
fect of wood stave pipe. the tail END OF
he work that has delayed the whole
sryyer and given a black eye to the sewer
system Of the west side.
The council is divided on the propo-
sition. T. r. Black is one of those who
stand with the city engineer. and ne be
HeveS that the city VIII eventually nave
10 relay the whole outlet others say
that If the pumps are started II VIII heip
fhs contractor to get the water out OF
The u-av. others say that there are bulk
heads in the interceptinE sewer ITSELF
and that it will take time to remove these
bs 10 do away with ell chance of test
ing the outlet because. II the pumps
vers stopped to have the test made, the
water in the sewers and laterals would
bark I'D. and there would be bunch OF
damage suits against the city on hand
The only thing known with certainty IS
that the whole sewer system OF the west
side mas been held up for months.
Kelsey Says Nothing.
I. c. Kelsey. city engineer, has occu-
MED a peculiar position during the Wran-
gle over the outlet work He is the city ;
engineer and. although the American
marty . members of the council thought
enough Of him in that capacity to raise
his nav recently, il has been long time
since he was asked a single quesuoa
about the work He smiles when it is
mentioned. He sits In the council ahd
board of works meetings, hears the mem
bers wrangling over the condition OF the
pipe smiles and says nothing. During
none of the arguments over the Work has
any member asked for his opinion as TO
the state Of the work. though they have
Oil number of occasions asked Ior opin-
ions from the city attorney on the legal
phases. Kelsey has said that the wood
stsve pipe as il was being laid would not
do Like some others. he is prepared TO
hear that the entire work may have TO
be done over again
The board of worKs has on its force
dozen meu who are employed as inspec-
tors on Citv contracts and who are paid
g for every day they work These in-
spectors were employed in various VOca-
tons and were given their inspection jobs
bv the board as rewards for assisting
in American party parades and other
political services. Some of them were
supposed to have been on this work from
the beginning. but twenty-five leaks were
found in the pipe when an attempt was
made TO test il
The Importance of having the inter
cepting sewer put in working order can
be understood when il is known that il
comprises. with its laterals, fifteen miles
Other laterals will be built as soon as
the sewer is doing business. It will drain
the whole western portion of the city
and will permit of the abandonment OF
the present outlet in the Jordan for th'
gravity sewer.
Contractor Lost Money.
There is no doubt that the contracto
for the wood staSs ripe outlet has los
much mOney-some say $4,000. 1t is ais.
true that the citv is out money through
the delay and trouble to which il hai
been put. At least it has lost s. dal
paid to each of the inspectors, who hav'
worked long after the time set to fin
ish the work. None of the big contractor
would touch the job and each of then
predicted that il would be a failure.
The whole west side has been complain
ing for a long time at the delay and theT,
are a load of petitions to connect will
the sewer latersls