The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
A BIG new SEWER
City Planning a Mammoth "Belt
Line"
Would Lead From Washburn
College TO River.
COVER WEST LIMITS.
Sewer Will Be at Least Two
Miles Long.
Commissioners to Order Plans
Made Next Week.

| A belt line sewer that will cover the
entire southwestern and western part
of the city including several of the
| new additions and connecting as we'll
as relieving existing sewers, is being
planned by the city commissioners.
Commissioner Tandy who has the
matter in charge will go out over the
district with City Engineer Fulton
the first of next week and at that
| time the permanent route will be laid
out.
For many years Topeka has needed
| a relief sewer of this kind. The old
Sixth ward sewer which has a fifteen
| inch outlet has been too small to take
At the present time there are two
thirty-inch mains running into this
| one fifteen-inch aperture.
Although the city council had
thought of the new sewer many times
| 1t was such a mammoth proposition
been postponed. Commissioner Tan
dy and the board of commissioners
have decided that something must be
done and they will order plans for
the sewer at once.
The new sewer will head from Eu-
cid avenue out near Washburn col
lege. 1t will follow the College Hill
addition, north on Washburn avenue
TO Tenth avenue. 1t will go east on
Tenth avenue to Summit avenue and
over to Sixth avenue, thence along
the asylum road over into Auburndale
and finally emptying into the Kansas
river.
1t will be seen that this covers
rich piece of territory and will give
sewer service to a thickly settled dis
trict that has been petitioning and
praying for the sewers for some time
Of
the west and in the past two years
the growth has been so great that for
the health of the people and the ben
eft of the territory the city has de-
cided to take up the big work as soon
as possible.
The new sewer district also includes
several of the valuable additions which
have been brought into the city. These
additions have built up wonderfully III
the last two years and with the extra
loads which have been placed on the
old sewer the new district is almost Il
necessity
The College Hill addition just west CT
College avenue is building up fast.
There are several large new homes be-
ing built in this. part of the city that
are built there will be several moro
homes built. The 'EImhurst addition
has practically been sold out and is now
accommodating many new homes. Al
LIOuSn d new sewer mas D6on sent
through the east end of this addition
the west end is without. service what
ever. The Melrose addition is another
beautiful piece of land that can be
made more beautiful and more valuable
with sewers.
This new sewer from one end to an
other on a straight line would be two
miles long. The mains will swerve in
few places, making it two mile and
a half system which will be the center
of a large system of laterals. There
are petitions from this district now
which would practically warrant the
construction of the project.
The Sixth ward sewer at this time has
such a load upon it that during heavy
rain the manholes are blown many feet
in the air and the water comes backing
out of the sewers in the Potwin district.
With two big thirty inch mains running
into this fifteen inch main the sewer IS
inadequate to carry off the water The
new sewer vii relieve this situation Al
though Commissioner Tandy did not
know this morning just the proposed di-
mansions of the new sewer he stated that
1t would have to be a th1rty-1nch analr
at least.
The people in this district are all anxious
for the new sewer. 81 haven't heard a
kick on it, said Mr.. Tandy this after
noon. "They all seem sure that petltlons
could be filled in a short time and re-
,,oonStra pces would he few"