Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-06-25

Pocomoke City, Md, June %, 1921
To the Editor of the Worcester
Democrat, Pocomoke City, Md.
Dear Sir:
In reply to the article entitled "The
Improvement of Linden avenue" APP
pearing in your paper in the edition
Of June 18th wherein the writer en-
deavors to criticize the Mayor and
Council in their efforts to make Po-
coinoke sanitary city and live up to
the record it now enjoys of being one
of the most sanitary towns on the
Eastern Shore:
wish to state for the benefit of
those who have not investigated the
situation themselves that there are
five dwellings on Second street extern
ded which are draining their house
sewerage into an open ditch just east
of "Stevenson's Gate, with ten to
fifteen dwellings within a radius of
FIVE hundred feet of this outlet) the
effect of which can readily be seen.
Two additional dwellings, are now un-
der construction. The only outlet for
these, as well as future construction
Oh this street, would also be into the
open ditch. Another unsanitary con-
ditiOn condition exists in the drainage
ditch back of the properties of Mr..
Milton l.. Veasey, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs.
Stevenson and others between Second
street and Linden avenue, in that the
thirty-six inch sewer, which was con-
structed in 1914 from Third and Mar
ket streets and which drains the sur
face water from Market street be-
tween Second and Fourth streets,
ompties into this open ditch bringing
with it the street sweepings which de-
posit and stagnate here due to the
fact that the outlet of the thirty-siX
inch pipe is less than two feet above
sea level which does not allow suffi-
cient fall for the open ditch to prop
crly drain to the river. These condi-
tions have been declared to be unsani
tary by the Department of Health of
Maryland and after a careful survey
of the entire northeastern section of
Pocomoke it was found that due to
it's Typographical location it was i'm
possible to drain any sewerage into
the existing system on Market street
or west thereof and that the only log
ical disposal was via Linden avenue,
Front and Bridge streets thence to
"Terrapin Gut" AS the Department
of Health would not allow any sewer
age to be deposited into the drainage
ditch north of this point and as
foundation for the only outlet of the
entire district lying northeast of Mar
ket street, it is proposed to construct
combined sewer from a point in
Terrapin Gut 240 feet west of the in
tersection of Bridge street and an un-
named street to point $40 feet north
on Second street extended via Bridge
street, Front street and Linden ave-
nue thereby removing the unsani-
tary conditions above outlined. The
cost of this work will be approxi-
mately $4,000 which amount is to be
furnished to the Mayor and Council
by the residents along the route with
out interest to the Mayor and Council
for a period of two years.
1t is noted that our critic calls at
tention to the fact that Walnut and
Oak streets have not been given con-
sideration. Investigation would have
developed the fact that Oak street Is
now provided with both sewers and
water and that under date of June 9,
1921, sewerage permit was issued by
the Department of Health covering
the construction of a sewer on Wal
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