The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-10-05
Sub-Oranage District Number One
St. Charles Drainage District
Number Two.

Sub-Orainage District Number One
St. Charles Drainage District
Number Two.
Observation-Disclosures No. l O
the st. Charles Drainage District No
2 is located in ST. Charles Parish, Lou
lsiana, and is described as follows:
DESCRIPTIONS Beginning at the
point of intersection of the East Banl
of Grand Bayou and the North Banl
of Black Prince Bayou in Section 10
T. IS S. R. 20 E., Southeastern District
OF Louisiana, West of the Mississippi
River, thence following the meander
ings of the East Bank of said Grand
Bayou along the following courses
N290-25' E. 1247.1 it. N200-36, E. GIL. go
1T. N90-07' E. 1O8S.0 it. N17o-59, E.
267.6 TT. N24o-29 E. 1929 it. N21O SO
E. 1871 fit. N130-44' E. 400 it. N9O-12'
E 1914 it. NOo12' w. 675.7 fit. N14o-5O'
E. 1918 #. MA so E. 449.5 #. N38o-
46/ E. 1908 it. N72o-O5> E. 2562.O #.
SS90-42 E. 5271.9 it. Thence leaving
the bayou and following the South
Bank of dug canal, S63 40, E. 1922. 6
it Thence S26o-2O' w. 100000 #.
to the North Bank of Black Prince
Bayou; thence following the meander-
ings of the said North Bank of Black
Prince Bayou to the place of begin
ming, containing in all 2685.71 acres.
This Sub-District is bounded on the
West by the st. Charles Municipal
Drainage District Number One.
TOPOGRAPHY-With the exception
OF a narrow ridge along Black Prince
and Grand Bayous, and a small area of
cypress on the North end, this Sub
District consists of prairie land subject
to overflow from fresh-water bayous
There are no bayous within the bound
aries of the Sub-District, but there are
several sloughs or areas of deep humus
commonly known as "fioto." These.
however, occupy but very small area
in the tract and will not interfere with
cultivation when the Sub-District is
under pump.
LEVEES-Levees are to be graded
when shrinkage is complete, to a grade |
four feet above mean tide level. This
elevation is Is feet higher than the
high-water mark at this point by the
storm of August, 1915. It will be nee
essary to muck-ditch a considerable /
portion of the Burchell Canal and
North Boundary levees, because of the
amount of humus in the levee material
at these places. A crown of minimum
width OF six feet will be maintained.
PLAN OF DRAINAGE-Fi ditch
es, dug by the individual owners. at
330-foot intervals drain into lateral
canals one-half mile apart, so that the
maximum haul for field ditch is 1920
feet. The laterals in turn empty into
the deeper main reservoir canal, whose
bottom is maintained at sufficient
depth to insure water surface fall of
six inches per mile of canal, and the
lowering of the water table
20 a depth of three feet in the land
most remote from the pumping plant.
RESERVOIR CAPACITY - The J
above mentioned main reservoir and |
aterals will furnish reservoir capac- {
ty of LOO inches run-off and the field g
litches OPS inches, or total reservoir I
;apacfty of 1.25 inches run-off for the '
685.71 acres. t
PUMPING PLANTING pumping |
liant will consist of two thirty-six inch t
centrifugal pumps, direct connected to i
nipple slide-valve engines. The com. @
lined capacity of the pumps viii be
1000 gals. per minute, equivalent to t
run-off of Les inches in "a hours for n
he 26S5.71 acres The steam plant v
ill consist of a battery of two main I
oilers, burning Mexican crude or fuel a
IL, and a small auxiliary boiler for a
Sc in conjunction with the oil burn "
rs. The combined pumping and res. e
rvoir capacity is equivalent to 2.9 a
lches run-off in "a hours. B
TIMBER-There is an area of heavy c
ypress timber in the northern portionl
the tract of approximately ninety Il
cres. p,
COST OF PUTTING INTO CULTI- re
ALTON AFTER DRAINAGE-AfterID
eing drained the land can be put into c
lltivation at cost of from $1,000 to s,
500 per acre, which figure includes So
e cost of ditching and first blowing. pl
VALUE OF THE LAND-The land T
this Sub-District after reclamation OF
III have value of $4,000 to $4,000 N
II acre. O(
chemical analysis CT
this soil, as well as its physical ID
aracter, show it to be of the same u
imposition as practically all Of the