The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-25
.UNEQUAL[[DLEVEE
PROTECTION FOR
CAIRO PLANNED
will be Best Protected from Over
flow Of Any U. 5.
City
CIVIL ENGINEERS AT WORK
Estimated Cost Of Work in City
I and Drainage District
/ About $1,000
CIVIL ENGINEERS AT WORK

Cairo, II not already SO, will be
the best protected city from over
flow by waters from the rivers, of
any city in the United States, ii the
plans now nearing completion are
carried out, and they will be carried
out; the Cairo Drainage District will
be equally as safe.
his assistant, P. l.. Lowe, who have
been in Cairo since May 13, have
been diligently at work ever since
on this levee proposition. Their Of
Ace in the Cairo Trust Property
building, has been busy place the
past three months. They have
evolved the plans, with some sug-
gestions by the Mayor and Citizens
Committee, have drawn many maps
and blue prints, have made drilllngs
all around the twenty miles Of
levees to learn the quality OF the
subsoil have made innumerable
surveys and have all the work com-
pleted with the exception Of few
minor details.
The estimated cost OF the entire
work for city and Drainage District
ls In the neighborhood of s550.00o.
comparatively small proportion If
lihis amount will be necessary to be-
lexpended by the city The Drainage
District and the railroads are exs
pected to contribute much the great
or proportion of the funds outside Of
the government appropriation, AS
proposed, the Ohio levee from the
Halliday Elevator to Eighteenth
street, will be the most expensive
work that will come under the direct
attention of the city. The plans
call for raising of the stone wall TO
a height OFFS feet, 2 W feet higher
than they now are. From Four
teenth to Eighth street solid con-
crete wall foot in thickness Will be
built against the present wall, re-
inforced by n Inch steel rods plac-
cd criss-cross l5 inches apart. This
reinforced wall will extend feet be-
low the base of the present wall and
it will rest on heavy concrete
foundation far below the natural
ground. Sheet piling of two thick
nesses of heavy oak lumber. each ;
| by IL inches by 1N feet in length
will be driven into the ground bes
| low the base Of the new concretc
wall, practically closing up the sand
stratas that have been allowing a
great deal of ,sipeage heretofore.
Between Fourteenth and Eighteenth
streets and south OF Eighth street
the new concrete wall will not be
extended so far below the present
base and there will be no sheet pills
ing done here.
The Ohio levee north of Eigh*
teenth street to the bridge will be
built to a height Of 81 feet on thu
government gauge and the river side
will have slope OF to |, and this
| will be protected by 4-inch bed or
concrete, reinforced by thick wire
travelage for a slope OF 35 feet In
| width.
| The Drainage District levee north
of the bridge on the Ohio side Will
be raised to 81 feet on the gauge. A
muck ditch will be made at the bot
tom of the present slope on the IN
side, which slope is now to !. This
muck ditch will be S by 6 by feet
in thickness, the material used to DO
of we'll selected clay material. When
this is done the inner slope will be
made 3 to 1. This work extends to
Cache river Very little work Will
have to be done on the Mississippi
leveefrom the Halliday Elevator to
the north Cairo leyee as this levee
is now fully 5s feet in height and
requires little strengthening.
North of the Cross levee at point
where washington avenue runs into
ii. the levee from this point 10
| where IL connects with the Cache
levee near Beech Ridge levce
will be raised to equal 81 feet on the
government gauge and sloped 3 to !
on the Mississippi river side, The
Cache lewee, from the Mississippi to
| the Ohio river, will be raised To the
81 feet height and sioped on the
Cache river side, to /.