Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1917-10-02
FVERAGE SYSTEM
finest IN WORLD
|..-o,e Equipped To Care For
re Needs OF Million
People.
Lsr ENGINEERING FEAT
. Scheme Projected Just After
The Fire Has Cost
$4,000, 600.

baltimore has the finest sew
,,em In the world is attested
&c, that engineers have come
onlv other American cities
\ r,sy and approve it, but from
,.rds It's construction cost
.sm Il includes $50 miles Of
sewers. 205 miles OF storm
|. drains. 5000 manholes. sani-
.,,nections provided for 10000
-. 500 stormwater inlets, pro-
:. for an average daily flow Of
4 IA gallons and a volume Of sew
.rno.d daily Of 22,OoO.OoO gallons.
slssosal plant at Back River is
der OF engineering construction.
~, great system was begun and
L.,,,,.d within the last 10 years.
,rstem was built under the di-
and supervision Of Calvin w.
aihok.
ro, City or Million People.
.,e 1905 a year after the fire.
.,,~ors had no municipal sewerage
- The method Of disposing of
L.s, vas by means OF cesspools.
~ The new system provides for
,.oulrements Of a city Of a million
|. ne early days the cesspools
ia in a satisfactory manner on
amt OF steep grades and the un-
|dne sandy strata Of the city. AS
I'm grew the question of adopt
nber methods was raised from
|. 70 time. covering a period OF per-
1. y years. In 1897 a commission
an extensive and interesting re-
on the subject. but nothing fur
was done until 1904. when State
|. we're enacted forbidding the dis
rre Of sewage into the Chesa-
h bav or it's tributaries without
purifying Il, with a view to pro-
Ing the vast oyster fisheries Of the
mpeake,
upendous Engineering Problem.
Ne city had grown to population
nearly 700. 900 inhabitants without
syerage system and was thus
irht face 10 face with one of the
stupendous engineering problems
modern tlmes-the installation of
complete and separate drainage
ems one for storm water and the
r for sanitary sewage.
u enactment forbidding the dis
rge OF crude sewage into the
sapeake bay also authorized the
O, Baltimore to issue bonds IN
sum Of 10000, 600 to carry out the
rk Of sewering the city. The bond
u was approved and a commission
s appointed by Mayor Il. Clay
hsnus 10 carry out the work. This
omission employed Calvin w. Hen
ck Of New York. then in charge or
rsconstruction OF the sewers or
d York. as chief engineer to carry
Baltimore sewerage project TO
ton.
Begun In 1906.
was begun on October
sN II was soon discovered that
no00O,00O loan was inadequate.
Tas estimated il would require
1 IS.500, 600 to construct a sani-
system complete and a system
.orm-water drains and $l,5OO,OOo
close Jones' fails. This loan was
ed and the work went forward.
sewers and drains installed range
slx-inch house connections to
s ss feet in circumference and
u sewers through which is au-
,ies, carrying the Governor, the
Z, the City Council, the Sewer
and party OF busi-
men made an inspection trip un-
le city.
'posal Plant On Back River.
thirds OF the sanitary sewage
, city flows by gravity to the
Isl plant on Back river, six
from the eastern city limits.
,hcr third requires 10 be pumped
N huge iron force mains dis
o. one mile TO the outfall sewer,
ght of - feet Cincluding fric-
from which point it also flows
lvity to the disposal plant.
sum OF sl2.50oN00. approximate
being paid by citizens for house
ctions with the sewers.