The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-11-25

The extension of the Lakelands
sewer system was the principle mat
ter before the city commission at the
regular meeting Tuesday night at the
city hall City Engineer Menden-
halls report formed the basis for dis
cuSsion and it was decided to draft
an amendment to the present charter
for submission to the voters whereby
it will be possible to legally carry out
the improvements as contained in En-
gineer Mendenhall's report. City At
torney j. Hardin Petersen will pro-
ceed at once with the necessary legal
steps. 1t will take a certain amount
OF time to dispose of the legal steps
but it is likely the matter can be sub
mitted to the voters about the middle
of January.
These are some of the salient fea-
lures of Engineer Mendennalrs re-
port:
Present Conditions
Examination of the trunk sewers
east # Ingram avenue shows that
they are adequate to carry the flow
that will be caused by thhe proposed
extensions, as we'll as the intensifica-
ton of service on the present system
if the infiltration of sand is stopped.
Examination Of the Imhoff tank
shows that it is already tremendously
overloaded and inadequate to handle
the present flow. This is causing
nuisance in Lake Parker
Proposed Extensions
The proposed extensions, shown in
red on the accompanying map, cover
= nil.
need of sewer service The main flow
frCm extensions on the North side of
the railroad will be collected into a II
inch main at Vermont and Parker and
conducted east along Parker to the
manhOle on the is inch main. The
main f.ow from extensions north of
Mcdonald street west on College ave-
nue. will be collected in the present
Il inch main at Lake Morton Drive
and Chiles street. The flow north of
Mcdonald street. east of college ave-
nue. and all south of Mcdonald, in
Guiding Southern College grounds,
will be collected in a Is inch main
running from McRorie street, through
the Southern College grounds to the p,
Il inch main on Ingram avenue. The
flow from the area west of Lake Beu-
lah will be collected through 10
inch main around the north end of
Lake Beulah to the west end of Lime
street, thence in u inch main east
along Lime street to Virginia avenue. E
1t is impracticable to serve by grav-
ity flow the areas west of North Lin
coin avenue, the area Immediately
surrounding Lake Hunter, the area
east OF Ingram avenue. and the area
one block back of Lake Hollingswor;h
Drive No provision is made in this
report to serve these areas as they
are sparsely settled and can easily be-
hooked into the present mains by
pumping when it is deemed necessary.
Disposal Plant
1t is deemed advisable to install two
additional Imhoff tanks at the pres
ent disposal plant site, these takns to
be OF the fastest improved designs and
each of 5000 person capacity Such
an installation would sufficiently
clarity the effluent to premit its con-
tinued discharge into Lake Parker
without the use of filter beds.
Costs and Quantities
To adequately provide for sewer
needs as indicated the following in
stallations will be required:
92,310 lin. ft. sewers, es-
tmated cost .....$ 94,6S4.00
36,73O lin it. 1 in. branches
to property lines,
estimated cost .. $4,000
20S manholes . 13,73O.0O
Inmhoff tanks .. 100000
$133, $4,000
Estimated engineering ex-