Evening star., 1918-11-20
PLANS TO IMPROVE
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Sanitary Engineer A. E. Phil
lips Files Annual Report
With Commissioners.

With Commissioners.
Extensive activities Of the sanitary
engineers division of the engineering
department of the District of Colum-
bia in maintenance, betterments. ex-
tensions and operation and plans for
widening the scope of the sewer work
and sewage disposal plant are shown
in an elaborate report of Sanitary En-
gineer Asa Z. Phillips for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1918. filed with
the board Of Commissioners.
Drainage studies for future develop
continued throughout the year with
physical surveys in various suburban
areas, among them separate systems
for newly developed areas in Hol-
brook, Kenilworth, Benning and Pine
hurst. with detailed surveys for sew
ers in Brookland, Petworth. upper
Piney Branch valley and Twining
City. Surveys for storm drainage
were made in the areas in klingle
valley. Connecticut Avenue Heights.
.tnacosti;a river.
Trunk Sewers Planned.
Detailed plans were made for the
Cleveland avenue and Calvert street.
Reno road, klingel valley, Delafield
place. South Illinois avenue and
North Petworth trunk sewers and for
the extension of the Easily point high
level. Plans were made for a trunk
in o-lA yoy N
Rock creek and Connecticut avenue.
Reno road between Macomb and
Newark streets. East Brookland from
18th and Newton to 18th and Hamltn
streets; also for a concrete channel
in the thirty-foot span Tiber sewer.
extending from Missouri avenue and
Sd street northwest to I'd and c
streets southwest.
Plans were prepared for enlarge
ment Of the sewage disposal system; |;
for the upper Potomac intercepter
from saith to 37th streets northwest,
and for the special deep section cross
ing under Rock creek and the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal between 27th
and 29th streets northwest. Improve
ments in the Rock creek pumping sys-
tenn by the erection OF n new station
that will make it possible to deliver
Potomac valley area west of Rock
creek to the sewage disposal plant
system. This station will be located
at 21th and X streets northwest and
will be equipped with electrical pump
ing units automatically controlled.
For Upper Anacostia Interceptor.
Physical studies and survey are
being made for the upper Anacostia
interceptor, which will extend along
the eastern bank of tho Anacost ia
river from Benning to the District
line, where it will receive the drain
age from the intercepting system of
the metropolitan sanitary district of
Maryland. thus completely removing
all sewage from that stream, which
flows for five miles through the Ana
costa valley parkway.
Taking up the matter Of handling
the sewage that naturally flows from
the Maryland territory adjoining the
District of Columbia, the report says:
fWar conditions have prevented the
beginning of construction on the systems
Maryland areas contiguous to the Dis
tr1ct which have been designated with
a view Of removing the sewage from
Maryland towns now seri-
ously polluttng the several streams flow
ing into the District which are not only
such important features of the park
system, but traverse closely built-up
sections sof the city itself, with their
contaminated waters at the doors or
hundreds of dwellers.
D. C. and Maryland Cooperation.
'Much, however. has been accomplish
ed in the way of planning and organiza-
tion, and it is felt that a secure founda-
ton has been laid for the realization
sanitary betterment between the District
OF Columbia and the state of MARYLAND
which was originally advised in my an
nual report for the fiscal year 1909, from
which the following is abstracted:
1.-The only practical solution of this
problem is believed to be in the for
nation of a metropolitan district un-
der the control of a state and national
board, with power to construct the
necessary valley interceptors for the
removal of the sewage, and that these
interceptors be arranged so as to dis
charge at the state line into the inter-
ceptors of the sewage disposal system
Of the District of Columbia. the Dis
trlct to be reimbursed for the cost of
pumping and handling the sewage
from the Maryland towns and villages
by a state-collected tax levied upon
the communities benefited, which
would also defray the cost of con-
struction and maintenance of the state
system"
73o Miles in System.
There are $50 miles of main nine
sewers and 5,S42 catch basins in the
city's system maintained at an ex
pense of $4,000 or $68.41 per mile
The abnormal increase in the work OF
the sewage pumping station is shown
as follows:
Main pumping station-Seware To
the amount of 2S.675. 100000 gallons
and 97S.522,000 gallons OF storm water
were pumped during the year. an In
crease of one 100000, 900 gallons OF
sewage over the quantity pumped dur
ing the previous fiscal year.
At the Poplar Point station
total of 577.s00,0oo gallons Of sew
age was pumped during the wear. an
increase Of 125.00O.00O gallons over
the quantity pumped during the me-
vious fiscal year.
Detail maps showing all under
ground construction, including CON
du1ts, gas and water mains. sewers
vaults. building projections. buiidine 2
restriction lines and railway tracks
have been prepared.
The total expenditures of the serv-
ice for the fiscal year were s633-
Stab, made up as follows: Sewerage
system. $590.638.55: disposal system
s42. .55S.S4: purchase and condemnation
of land for right Of way, $377.24. The
total appropriation for this service
was $633, 500.
PEACE DELEGATION