The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-01-13
VILLAGE BOARD HEARS
PROTESTS ON SEWERS
Explains 60 Is To Individual Proper
~ Oaners Showing Compare
lively Small Expense.

The village board met last night
t. consider protests against the
proposed s. swer system for Filler. A
number OF citizens attended the SEES
sion Shortly before 3 o'clock j. w.
Eaton presented petition contain
ing names Of number OF property
owners protesting against the con-
struction OF the main sewer.
This was the first protest filed
against the main sewer. and came as
surprise 10 the village board, when
had believed that il was almost the
universal opinion that the main
sewer should be constructed as II was
thought the ultimatum given by the
state sanitary board last summer.
threatening To close up number OF
the business houses and stop the
county fair unless better sanitary
conditions were secured, was quite
generally known.
IL is believed bv the board that to
some extent the objections arose from
a misunderstanding as TO the pur-
poses and objects of the two ordin-
anees. Ii was currently reported on
the streets yesterday that the con-
structiOn of the sewer would cost
Zach lot owner approximately SooO.
a statement declared TO be untrue:
Auer hearing the explanation OF
the board as 10 the actual ana true
costs OF the system. Mr.. Eaton, VINO
had filed the petition and acted as
spokesman against the main sewer,
stated TO the board that he mad
changed his opinion and believed the
main sewer should be constructed
with at least two laterals. TO care for
the main portion OF the town.
Following are given some facts
taken from the engineers report as
10 inst what the sewer will cost the
residents:
Ordinance No. 43 provided for a
main sewer and disposal plant ana
prsg'des for an improvement district
covering the whole village. Each iot
i'm the city being assessed 81 cents
per front foot A 25-foot lot viii DE
assessed $20.25. a 5O-foot lot twice
that amount. This Is To he paid IN lo
yearly installments. or s202 per year
pIirs- Interest at per cent,
Ordinance No. "A provides Tor lat
eral sewers for Only such portions OF
the village as desire II and provides
for an improvement district only OF
the size desired by the residents or
a size to be established by the board.
The assessment per front foot varies
10 some extent as to the materials
whether earth or rock, through
which the lateral sewer will have
to be constructed.
For instance, the lateral on North
street will cost Sl.59 per front foot !:
the one in the alley between Main
and Midway costs $3.50 per front
foot: the one in alley between Main
and Fifth streets costs S2.25 per
front foot, and the lateral between
Fifth and Sixth s2.is per front foot.
A. example given at last nighi :
meeting assumed that a property
owner on the south side OF Main
-as owns IS feet nf frontage. The
lateral sewer charges between Main
and Fifth would be SIS. rs; his Main
sewer charges would cost s2O.25. or
a total OF $3.50 and II paid on the
.s wear plan total 90 xTt5 plus Z
per cent interest per year. III he
owns so feet, his assessment would
o.. .~iea that 90 'ha 25-foot lot. The
first payment will in all probability
not be- due until November. 1922.
rts frustees took the pro-
tests under advisement as under the
.is,rn can h. made until
the next reuglar meeting on Feb
ruary 8.
Al the meeting last night members
OF the board stated that the engl-
mrs estimate was based on the
maximum possible costs and that un-
doubleday lower contracts could be
made