The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-23
BEST ARGUMENT
ADvANCEDfAVOR
IOf BOND ISSUE
Description and Detailed Drawings
Of $e4S,OOo Proposed
improvement

presented III TINS isSuc VI
letin show the proposed improve
ments in the leyees of cairo anu the
Drainage District.
These Improvements viii raise
and strengthen the seven miles OF
leyees surrounding Cairo and the
fifrxen miles OF levees necessary for
the complete protection OF the
Drainage District. raising the levee
gradually from 81 feet at Fourth
street 10 SIS feet NJ Cache creek
This will raisa the levees on the
Ohio river side to three and four
feet above the food tide Of 1912.
In addition to raising the levees
the entire system will be strength !
ened in width by Increasing the
body of the embankment.
Principally the interest will be
centered in the vast Improvement
contemplated according to the plans
and specifications along the river
front Of Cairo.
From point below Second street
to Eighteenth street, where al pres
emit the stone retaining wall is To-
Gated, new wall is to be construct
ed which will increase the thickness
and the height.
A fair idea of this work can be
obtained at a casual glance at the
cross section shown.
On the section north of Eighth
to Fourteenth street, where the
macadam wharf frontage OF the city
ends, probably she,t piling OF steel,
concrete or ereosoted wood will be
driven down twenty feet below the
base OF the present rubble stone
wall
Upon this contemplated sheet pl-
ing will be erected new wall OF
concrete, which will greatly in
crease the thickness, and top the old
retaining wall by nearly three feet.
This nsw wall will be reinforced
with steel rods and tied to the old
wall, the whole making homeo-
geneous solid mass OF masonry cap
able of resisting effectively any
force Of water not above a fifty-elght
foot gauge.
The sheet piling upon which this
new wall win rest will penetrate the
sub-strata of sand which borings
have demonstrated exist along this
expanse of old wall be ow its base.
This will give absolutely firm and
; substantial base and serve to eff
fectually block any sipeage.
A small cross section shows how
the new wall, combined with the
old, resting upon the sheet piling,
will look when ii is completed.
improvements at Reno Slough.
Cross sections exhibit many other
contemplated Improvements in the
entire leve system.
The Federal government has al
ready completed the work on Reno
Slough.
1t not only greatly enlarged the
embankinent at Reno Slough, but
placed banquette on the inside Of
the levee.
Reno Slough Is on Cache levee
between the Mobile and Ohio and
the Illinois Central entertainments
This work by the Federal govern
memt has increased the width of the
base, heightened the slope and
raised the elevation until II now
exceeds fifty-eight feet on the Cairo
gauge.
With the exception of the Big
Four embankment between Cairo
and Cache creek, all the new en-
fragments contemplated are to be
erected on the river side OF the sys-
ten. On account of nsuffeiency OF
room on the Big Four eTnbankment
on the outside. the proposed work
will be contracted on the land or
inner side.
Hence It follows, that the in
crease in strength and eleyat on
will be on the outside of all the
levees on the Ohio south OF the |.
G. Bridge.
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without disturbing the tracks at
present occupying these embank-
ments.
The ballast on the Big Four em-
bankment will be removed and the
new earth placed in position thus
raising the embankment to the re-
CURED heighth, and the ballast re-
placed when the work Is Completed.
Muck Ditching Will Be Feature.
Muck Ditehing will be a feature
In the contemplated work, borings
having shown the necessity for It
at certain points.
Cross sections will show whore
this will be done.
In the construction OF the Ill npis
Central eTnbankment above Eigh.
tesnth streetAcinders were used to a
large ext MT. This necessitates the
placing OF a muck ditch 1--WE feet
below the present top of the levee
the new work on the outside for ad
ditional strength then being added
The muck ditch on the Big Foiil
omhnnkment will be located on the
inside in order to cut the sant
stratas which were found below tn,
surface.
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