Arizona republican., 1910-02-01
Total cost of vitrified pipe laid
.S37S.441.s0

These figures represent actual cost
 and make no provision for contractors profits. engineering or contingencies. | As the depth of the laterals in plan one nowhere reach that required for the proper drainage of important busi- ness buildings. the committee is con- strained to dismiss said plan without ! further notice.
 Plan two provides fairly well for the ! drainage of the city under present con-
 ditions, but makes no provision for ! the proper drainage of important busi-
 ness districts in the near future. To
 meet this objection it is the opinion of
 the committee that the plans should
 be modified as follows:
 A sub-main should be provided on Seventh avenue having a depth below grade of sixteen feet n6 feet) at Van Buren street and draining southward. Such modification of plan No. will furnish deep sewerage wherever de-
 sired in the district bounded by Polk street and it's westward projection on
 the north, Harrison street on the south.
 Seventh street on the east and Eighth
 avenue on the west. The sub main on
 plan No ?. shown running west on
 Fillmore street and thence westward
 through University addition. should be
 deflected southward at Seventh ave-
 nue to join the deep sub-main above
 proposed at Van Buren street. This arrangement provides deep sewerage at
 Five Points and vicinity where the
 plans submitted provide for depth of not more than six feet (6 feeD) with out the possibility of deeper sewerage
 in the future.
 The plan submitted properly pro-
 vides for the location of the laterals in the alleys so far as practicable. In certain portions of the city, notably in University. Simms and Montgomery additions. and in some other isolated cases. no alleys are provided in the re- spective plats. In other cases alleys have been arbitrarily closed. The com- mittee recommends that in all such localities the construction of the sewer be deferred until the owners of such closed properties shall dedicate to the city grounds for practicable alleys. not only as right-of-way for sewerage purposes. but for general use. and in any case where alleys have been un- lawfully closed. that effective steps be taken to immediately open the same.
 While the plan under discussion wholly ignores the present sewer sys- tenn, it seems proper to say that while deep laterals draining into the pro- posed Seventh avenue sub-main should at once he substituted for the old sys- tenn in the following localities. namely. the alley between Madison and Jeffer- son streets from Seventh avenue cast to First street in the alley between Washington and Adams streets from Seventh avenue east to Third street. and in the alley between Monroe and Van Buren streets from Seventh ave- uue east to First street. The remain ing portions of the old system serve their respective locations in a satisfac- tory manner and will doubtless con tinue to do SO until such time as deep are built in those dis tricts. Therefore it would seem wise that the city acquire such portions of the old system. provided that 1t can be done at advantageous figures. bear ing in mind that sooner or later part or all of it will have to be superseded by deeper construction.
 In regard to sewerage disposal. the believes that the conditions here prevailing render disposal by broad irrigation preferable to septic and therefore recommends that the septic tank provided for in the plans submitted, be eliminated. and that the city acquire tract of suffi- cient area at suitable elevation in the vicinity of the outfall and utilize the same for the purpose of sewage farm ing. It is the opinion of the commit tee that such an arrangement under proper management can be made a source of revenue. instead of the bur- den which septic treatment imposes. and at the same time dispose of the sewage in an entirely satisfactory manner.
 The manner in which funds shall be raised to pay for the construction of the sewer has been productive of con- s1.a..f l<I .l |.