The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-17
FIRST OUTLET OF
BIG SEWER IS
O.K.'DBYSTIVER
Second Link of big Project
Will Begin at Once, AnnOun-
ces Engineer.
DRY WEATHER is BIG
AID TO MEN ON JOB
Csrnfelds Through Which Tun-
mel Will Pass, HOldup Pre-
liminary Work.

City Engineer Chris Silver last
night announced that the preliminary
survey for the first outlet for the pro-
posed $150,000 new sewer system in
West Cape has been completed.
The survey of another line of outlet
for the sewer system through a tun-
mel that will pass under portions of
South Cape will be commenced at
once.
At the close of both surveys, the
figures gathered will be digested, the
volume of sewage disposal that will
be carried off by the new system cal
culated and the cost of the two out
lets estimated to learn which will be
the most economical for the city to
use.
In the last two weeks of warm
weather the engineers have been able
to work in the field steadily and COM
plete the line of levels that leads the
sewer from the high land in West
Cape to its entrance into the Missis-
sippi more than mile south of town.
The proposed sewer will serve a dis
trict extending from the Normal Hill
south to the city limits taking in all
the part of the town in the West End
that is not now served by a sewer sys-
TEN. 1t will mean a rapid advance in
the value of property in the parts of
the city affected and it is probable that
the sewer will be completed within an
other year.
The proposed line of outlet follows
the lowIand in the West End around a
ridge extending south from Haarig till
it crosses the Rock Levee road at a
point 200 feet north of the concrete
bridge on the Rock Levee road south
of town. The outlet for the sewage
system extends from Independence and
Henderson avenues and the distance
from this point to the river is two and
half miles.
This will be laid with ordinary sew
er piping protected from weather ero-
sion in the ordinary ways.
The next proposed line of outlet will
run from the south end of town west
of Sprigg street in the district that is
to be served, through the ridge ex-
tending north and south about where
Sprigg street runs.
A tunnel will be planned to carry
the sewer under the ridge. The line
will cross Sprigg street at about
Sprigg and Elm and will follow in a
general way the Beaudean draw.
The tunnel will be within the city
limits and will cut down the distance
to the river by about mile and a
half to two miles. 1t is this shorten
ing the pipe-laying distance that may
make it more economical for the city
to use the tunnel.
While the engineers have been max
ing their survey south of town, they
have been forced to go through sever
al cornfields.
Silver last night said that in some
of the cornfields they have been forced
to pierce, it has been almost impos-
sible for the field men to make head
way.
They have been forced to cut path
way through the corn stalks down
which the engineers have worked. The
corn stands many feet over the heads
of the workmen and is so thick that II
was difficult to cut the pathway.
The path could only be wide enough
to premit the men to pass through anC
for the instrument men to run the
proper levels and set the stakes ir
the proper way in making the survey
accurate.
In few cases farmers have raised
an objection to having the engineer:
pass through their corn, but in eacf
case, payment has been promised fol
the damage done to the corn. The corr
in each case has been carefully sal
vaged by the engineers and farmers 81
that little material damage has beer
done by the survey men.
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