The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-04-10
MAY UTILIZE BED OF CREEK
City Engineer Brennan Believes That
This is the Best Solution of Big Prob
lem of Securing Best Sewer for This
Part of City-Plans Reducing Plant

busily at work on plans for the pro-
posed trunk sewer to take care of the
north and northwest sides of the city
and it is expected that the plans will
! be ready for the consideration of the
council at the next regular session.
Engineer Brennan is not following the
lines laid out by former City Engineer
Baltzer in seeking to secure a sewer
to enter the lake at the foot of North
street or at some other point along
the north end Of the city, but his plan
| is to secure more central trunk
sewer which can be used as an outlet
for auxiliary systems from the north
west and even portion of the south
of the city. The engineer holds that a
1 natural water way offers the best posi-
bic route for a sewer and he is plan
low the shores of Pike River from a
point somewhere in the neighborhood
Of Middle street to the west end Of
the city.
| The plan is not to have the sewer
close up the river as was the plan for
Jerome Creek, but to be built on the
/ banks of the river with the under
standing that the creek will be left
open ito take care of storm water.
! Engineer Brennan holds that with this
plan the vague problem of caArAsisg a
sewer over the big ravine to the north
and west of the city will not have to
/ be met and that with a sewer con-
| tructed along the bed of the creek the
cost of it will be considerably less
| than if it were built on former plans
outlined. The query that naturally
arises is what is to be done with the
sewage. This is the beauty Of the
plan proposed by the engineer 1t
provides for the building of a reduc-
ing and purifying plant somewhere in
the neighborhood of the Middle street
bridge. This plan which it is esti-
mated would cost in the neighborhood
| of $4,000, will take care of the puri-
fication Of all the sewage and it can
then be dumped into the Kenosha
river.
1t is held that with such a plant the
city could enforce an order to take
care of sewage from the N. r. Allen s
tannery. Assistants in the engineer S
office have been at work making sur
| veys of this sewer and it is declared
that the plan has met with the sup
port of many of the members of the
council. It is thought that the $4,000
voted by the people at the recent cleo
ton would take care of the building of
the proposed sewer and the reducing
plant as planned
The reducing plant that is being
suggested is similar to those III use in
the very centers of the great cities
of the country and it is declared that
| it has absolutely no Objectionable
| features.
City Engineer Brennan claims that
it will be an easy matter to direct
sewers from both the north and west
sides Of the city into this sewer and
that it will be sufficient to take care
of the demands of these sections of
the city for years to come. AS it is
not proposed to close up the creek in
any way but to provide for purifying
the wares of it it is not thought that
there will be any objections to the
building Of the sewr from people
claiming the riparian rights along the
banks.
The work of making the plan is con
siderable but the engineer is hopeful
that he will have it ready for the con-
sideration of the council at its next
regular session.