The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-03
COMMITTEE AGREES ON
PLAN FOR COLLEGE SEWER
Amendments Inserted to Safeguard
Purity of City Water
supply.
OBJECT TO PLAN of CONSTRUCTION
Deck and Boiling Both withhold APP
provni From Project-Terms of New
Ordinance.

Following an additional two-hour
hearing on the Richmond College
sewer plan subcommittee from the
Council Committee on Public Buildings.
Properties and Utilities voted last
night to recommend for passage al,
amended ordinance granting the col
leGe application with certain import
ant reservations.
AS originally drawn by the college
authorities and submitted TO the Pub
lie Buildings Committee. the ordinance
provided for the construction OF n east
iron siN-inch sewer from the college
property to point opposite the east
e .rn end of Williamss Islalt where
the sewer was to empty into the north
channel Of the river below the intake
at the Settling Basins.
In order To meet the Views OF those
who feared I. possible pollution of tho
city, water supply in the event or "a
break In the sewer or through s.cpnEc.
the committee incorporated AN amend
and the Chief Health officer authority
TO discontinue the use Of tho sewer
when In their opinion IL Is creating a
nuisance or Is pollutinS the city water
SEWER MUST NE GIVEN
TWO-DAY TEST
council the right TO permit other nrop-
crty owners In the college ncighbor-
f Go9d to drain through the Richmond
Board is directed to require n two.cay
test of the sewer after it Is construct
cd and before II Is put in use. under
a pressure Of 100 pounds.
The Council, under the amended or
uinnncc. reserves the right TO revoke
IN" ordinance At any time IT may see
tit to do so, and to require Richmond
College to empty it's sewerage into
any city sewer that may be available
the sewer is to DO discharged into the
water as may be designated by the
Chief Health Officer and the Admins
trative Board.
Chairman Mitchell, Of the subcom-
nittee. called the meeting TO order at
$50 o'clock. City Engineer Boiling
was called upon for a statement. and he
plan voiced by him when the matter
was considered last week by the full
committee. He gave II as his opinion
that publication plant would offer a
eragc problem of the college than the
sewer that was proposed.
SUSPENDED CONSTRUCTION
MIR; Boiling objected particularly to
me danger surrounding the discharge
the point designated In the drawing
accompanying the ordinance. y read
ing of the ordinance developed the fact
be determined by the Administrative
Board and the Chief Health Officer, and
could be ordered carried further Into
to Mr.. Eolling's attention he look ed
more kindly upon the plan, refraining,
however, from giving it his approval.
Henry Il. Beck, Of the Administrative
BOARD. was inclined to agree with the
City Engineer that the suspended con-
struction planned by the college engi-
neers was undesirable. He could not.
he said, give the plan his approval. At
the meeting Of the full committee on
May %, State Sanitary Engineer Mes
ser. ana Chief Health Officer Levy both
Endorsed the college plan as superior
to the septic tank or publication plant
system preferred by the City Engineer.
Chairman Morgan r. Mills. of the
Public Buildings, Properties and Utili-
ties Committee, who was member
also OF the subcommittee. said last
night that he will call Il meeting of tho
full committee for next Monday night
to pass upon the amended ordinance.
1t Is regarded as probable that the sub
committees recommendation will be
approved.
If the ordinance is passed by both
branches of the Council, the sewer will
be constructed under the supervision OF
the Administrative Board, which Is
given power In the ORDINANCE TO dcsig-
nate the kind of Joint that shall be
used with the pipe. as we'll rs to direct
OF her details of construction