The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-03
CITY ENGINEER MAKES REPORT
Engineer Batter Declares that Few
Extras Have Been Made Necessary
by Condition OF the Bottom of
the Greek.

The Cleary, White, Newman company.
contractors for the trunk sewer are
meeting with serious difficulties in car.
rying out their contract on account of
the big problem Of taking care of the
water in Jerome Creek, but it is thought
that a series of pumps have solved the
difficulty and that from now on the
work will advance rapidly. The CON
tractors are planning to send their
first claim for money to the council at
the August meeting and it will be bas-
ed On the completion of little over
one-fourth of the entire contract. This
will give the company little over
$4,000.
City Engineer August Baltzer this
morning gave out his second report to
the people in regard to the progress of
the work on the sewer. In his report
he says:
''The progress of the sewer for the
past week mas been somewhat handi
capped, due to the very poor condition
of the bottom of the bed of jerome
Creek. 1t has been necessary in sew
eral places, to put in plank bottom
SO as to make sure of q good founda
tion for the sewer.
So as to take care of the waters in
Jerome Creek the contractors have
erected an eight inch pump On Park
avenue. By means of this pump, the
water is taken from the creek an6
carried through a line of ten inch pipe
down into the sewer, just west of Dur
kee avenue.
This pump, however, is not large
enough to properly handle all of the
water, and therefore two electrically
driven ones, one ten inches and one
six inches, have been erected on the
corner of Fremont and Strong streets
pumping the water out of the catch.
basin, and leading it through pipe
line laid on the surface of Fremont
avenue, discharging into twenty four
inch sewer, at the corner of Elizabeth
and Fremont avenue.
With these three pumps in operation
the contractors hope that they will be
able to take care of all the water
discharging through the creek.
Up to date, they have finished about
one thousand hneal feet of the 80 inch
sewer. There still remains 1000 feet
of the 80 inch section on the west end
OF the sewer. They have put in three
hundred eight feet of the rs inch sec
ton, nine hundred, ninety-two feet re-
naming of this size. Then there is
approximately twelve hundred Iineal
feet of 66 inch sewer to be put in.
The materials now used in the con-
struction of the sewer are fully up to
standard as called for in the specifca-
tions.
The aggregate used, is crushed lime
stone, number 3, and the recent test
OF the cement taken from both the
west and east ends of the job, indicates
that the cement is all right.
If no difficulties arise, and weather
condition continues to be as favorable
as it has, there is little reason to doubt
but what the contractors will finish m
the work on specified time.
| had expected that the work on the
outlet would have been started before
this, and on investigation I find that
the contractor for this work, acting ac.
cording to specifications, was unable to
secure pine piles, within a reasonable
time and as pine is seldom used for
piles, I~permitted him to substitute
tamarack piles, which are far better
understand that number of these
piles are now on the way ana the work
ON the outlet is to be started within
very few days.
Very truly years,
August Baltzer,
City Engineer