The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-20
GHIAID PARK
Will FIGHT FOR
DETROIT SEWER
Application TO State Board OF
Health to Follow Turn
Down BY City
CONNECTING SEWERS IN
USE FOR MANY YEARS
Upon This Fact Village Relies
for Success of Appeal to
Courts

The common council, Tuesday might
adopted the report OF the sewer com
mittee, ignoring the order or the state
board OF health and denying Highland
Park to connect It's sewer system win
the new Morrell-st. sewer.
Comics OF the formal order issued
by the state board ordering the city
20 furnish sewer outlet Tor the NiI-
lage have been sent TO the city anu
village officials.
According To Attorney Alfred Luck
ing. counsel for Highland Park village.
An immediate application TOR a supple
mental order will be made 10 the state
board Of health The village will ASK
the board to apportion the cost be-
tween the municipalities. and on re-
fnsal OF the city to comply With the
order, the matter will be taken into
the courts. The order provides that
the expense OF making the connection
shall be determined by mutual agree
ment between the city and village ON
cials.
The board holds that since the city
and village have used connecting sew
ers since 1899. the city is obligated TO
further accommodate the village wit.
adequate sewer outlet. as the present
sewer system In the village is over
taxed and menace to the health OF
hOth communities. The Woodward
ave. sewer, which Is now being USED
in common by the city and the VII
lage, 10 over-taxed and the board rec
Ommends the Morrellst connection TO
relieve this condition.
The route OF the Morrell-st sewer
connection Is provided for by the
board as follows:
1T further appearing that the VII
lage Of Highland Park. for the protec-
ton and preservation of the public
health, Is In urgent need of further ad-
dltions to this sewer system, and it
also appearing that said trunk sewer
connection will traverse territory I'M
Wediateiy adjacent TO the village OF
Highland Park and the city OF Detroit
which may. in the future. become
part OF the city OF Detroit and will. in
any event, be in need OF sewer faciii-
ties for the preservation and protec-
tiOn Of public health.
% III is recommended and ordered
that said trunk sewer connection shall
be laid alcny Tusedo-ave., from WOOD
Wardave. to Hamilton-blvd. having a
capacity equivalent to.the capacity OF
= cylindrical scwer fur feet and zine
inches In diameter from Hamilton
blvd. to Twelith-st. said trunk sewer
connection shali he la.h a.ols rhe line
~ TuxedQeye., having a capacity
eQhivAIent 10 the capacity OF cylin-
drfcal sewer Eve and one-haif feet in
diameter. that from Twelfth-st, and
TuxedO-ave. said trunk sewer connec-
tlon shall be laid along said Twelfth
q. southwardiy TO Bancroftave.;
thence westwardly along Bancroft-ave.
- Eighteenth-st. having a capacity
equivalent TO the capacity OF cylin-
drical sewer six and one-half feet In
diameter: that from Eighteenth-st. at
Bancroft-ave. said trunk sewer connec-
don shall be laid southwardly along
naid Eighteenth-st to Montrose-ave.
thence westwardly along Mcntrose-
ave. to Lawton-ave.; thence south
wardly along .aNton-ave. TO the limits
Of the city III Lctroit, having a capac-
ity equivalent TO the capacity of a cyl
indriCal sewer seN en- and one.half feet
tn diameter, and there connect with
Morreli-st. sewer.