Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-16
GREAT SEWER PLAN
Mammoth System Projected
to Drain Maryland Suburbs.
MEETING AT KENSINGT0N
District and State Health Officials
Give Views on the Subject.
CORRELATION OF INTERESTS
Federal Government and State Leg
islature Expected to Cooperate
for Mutual Benefit.
CORRELATION OF INTERESTS

The building Of mammoth sewerage
system that will provide. not only for the
needs OF the District, hut will extend far
into Maryland. taking in communities
that arc in the Rock Creek ami .Anacostia
valley zones is plan that Congress and
the Maryland legislature are to be asked
to give their approval to.
The plan. which has been presented in
several annual reports by Asa B. Phil
lips. District superintendent Of sewers,
last night was taken hold of In earnest
by the Montgomery County Medical So
ciety, at a mass meeting Of citizens held
in the town hall at Kensington. Md. and
committee was appointed to take the
matter up with the Maryland legislature
at It's coming session.
Mr.. Phillips who was one Of several
speakers. declared that he confident
the federal government would consent to
the sewerage of the Maryland community
being carried off through two big inter-
ceptors that are being constructed to the
District line up Rock Creek and Anacos-
tia valleys. provided the Maryland au-
thorities construct a sewerage system
that will connect with the interceptors.
Mutual Advantage Claimed.
The advantage which both the state Of
Maryland and the District are expected to
derive from this arrangement is that
residents Of the commonwealth who live
near the District line will be provided
with practically the only means of dis
posing Of their sewerage satisfactorily.
while the District will have nothing to
fear from polluted streams in the Rock
Creek and Anacostia valleys that have
been catching the sewerage drainage OF
the neighboring communities.
A bond issue will be required for the
building Of the Maryland sewers, and. for
that reason committee was appointed
to appear before the Legislature and get
the project started by requesting an ap-
preparation with which to make survey
for the sewerage zones. The Legislature
bond issue before 1914 The cost of the
undertaking has not been worked out, but
Supt. Phillips is of the opinion that the
expense to the state in building sewers
down Rock Creek valley to District
line will be in the neighborhood of
quarter of a million dollars, with the cost
incurred in the Anacostia valley probably
slightly less
Benefit to District.
Practically the only expense to the Dis
trict outside OF the building of the two
big interceptors at cost Of S1.pO,OOo.
will be incurred in handling the sewerage
after it has been received from the Mary
land system. This cost. say local officials,
will more than Offset the disastrous re-
suits that might otherwise come about
from the polluted streams in the two
valleys.
me Maryland state board Of health
will be an active factor in bringing about
the realization OF the proposed plan. DR..
Marshall l.. Price, secretary, and Will
liam Pinkney Whyte. jr.. general coun-
sci of the board, were present at the
meeting in Kensington last night am
advocated the undertaking.
, Mr.. Whyte suggested that the state
board OF health examine the situation
Immediately and report to the legisla-
ture next January with a request for an
act authorizing the board TO make a
sanitary inspection and report back to
the legislature in 1914. At that time, he
said the board should be in a position
to outline detailed scheme for getting
the sewers constructed and recommend
that bonds be issued.
Plan Is Approved.
The plan Of the state board Of health
attorney was adopted unanimously by
the meeting, but, in addition. 1t was de-