The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-30
WATERS BAD EFFECTS
WERE SET FORTH
City and Property Owners Have Some
Problems to Deal With Which Arise
from Flooding in the fremont
Street Section.

Water and its deeterious effects -
chiefly the latter-were the occasion fo'
an interesting debate in the board Of :
dermen's regular meeting last ever -
something like an hour being spe csssS
considering the wasting influence ~
ter when applied to mother ca. and
when mother earth lies in the inh..oted
part of the city. The chief location was
in the Park, Elm, Hall and fremont
street section of the second ward, al
though the Warren street section of the
third ward came into the debate at times.
The difficulty in the second ward is due
to the efforts of water to seek the lowest
level in the easiest manner possible, said
water starting from upper Elm street,
coursing down across that thoroughfare,
lifting considerable parcels of real estate
every food time, and then dropping out
of sight like Lost river Tor Honey brook ],
reappearing and eventually, no doubt,
finding its way into Potash brook at the
foot of the hill It is claimed by John p.
Corskie that more water than ever has
been diverted into this waterway, with
the result that he is losing a great deal
of his real estate back of fremont street
from time to time to the advantage or
disadvantage of his neighbors, whatever
the case may be. Mr.. Corskie claims that
the diversion of much of this water is a
responsibility on the part of the city of
Barre, and at the last meeting he in
structed Attorney E. r. Davis to appear
and ask the city what it was going to do
about it. N. S. Love, who resides at the
corner of fremont and Hall streets, has
had his tussles also with the water and
has, it was reported, laid pipe as a means
of protection.
So, after hearing the complaint of Mr..
Corskie, the committee of the whole
made an official visit to the location, as
some other city councils have done, and
investigated the surroundings. II was
found that a considerable volume of wa
ter does come down through the real es.
tate of some land owners there, but the
responsibility on the city was not wholly
apparent, or so some of the aldermen re-
ported. Nor were the remedies any the
clearer.
Thus, when it came before the board
last evening, there was no nearer ap-
proach to the solution of the tangle; and,
after long discussion, the matter was
left with the committee of the whole,
with some intimation that the interested
property owners might be called, per-
haps, into conference.
The Warren street case is also of long
standing. 1t is claimed that a retaining
wall was washed out by water so that
| ii toppled over, with the result that the
city at some previous time-three years
ago, it was said-agreed to fill in where
the wall had gone down. Because that
work was not done to the satisfaction of
| Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Ciradelli, the latter ap-
peared before the board and asked what
the city was going TO do TO live up to
its agreement Mayor Glysson asserted
that the agreement was virtually as Mrs.
Ciradell had stated because he was a
member of the street committee at the
time and he remembered the conditions I;
the city was to fill within four feet of
| the street to the bank of the brook, al
lowing a natural slope as would result
from dumping the filing material. Al
derman Mcmillan stated that the city
\ had dumped in twenty carloads of stone
chips until the city teams had to be
called off that job to look after the
l
ance that further steps would be taken
to complete the fill.
So much for water and its deeterious
effects. The other business of the board
was soon attended to. Assessor N. B.
Ballard was told that the assessors could
engage clerk up to salary of SlS a
week, Alderman Ballard stating that it
would be impossible for him to give all
his time TO the work. A pool room Ii.
cense was granted to David Farrand.
Victor Valley was given permission to
move henhouse from Smith street to
Granite street, providing the location is
satisfactory to the building inspector
The following warrants were ordered
paid; Street payroll, S374.43; engineer
ing payroll. 1928; water payroll, SSH ;
fire payroll, Sl4s.73; police payroll,
Sll30l; assessors payroll, S6s,; city
hall janitor, SIG; social worker, SIS; Al
len Lumber Co, S2.64; Mrs Grace Nor
gan, 81; J, F. Spencer, $24.
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