The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-12-22
PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP
TO NEED FOR DRAINAGE
Three Big Drainage Projects Under Way and
Projected in This County, Show Interest
in Improvement of Lands

the people OF aSquoldliI
County are taking advantage
of their opportunities to pro
vide drainage for their lands
and are glad to sieze thy
chance to institute drainagI
proceedings under the poweI
of the State Highway Com
mission, which is authorized
to do so where the drainage \
necessary to the constructor
or maintenance of any particuI
lar road constituting a part o
the State Highway System.
A second drainage district is pro
jected for Pasquotank, County, cnI
bracing $1,000 acres in Mt. liermoI
Township, in a petition signed b
Chairman Frank Page, of the Stat
Highway Commission. The petiiio|
is in the hands of the Clerk of III
Court here, ready to be formal
filed. The tract embraced in this pd
tition. lies between the two branchd
of Knobbs Creek, and runs westwa1
to the Foreman Stock Farms. A
this land IS tributary to the net
road to Hertford 1t is described
! the petition as follows:
"All those certain lands located
Pasquotank County, and on the wa
ershed of the southern fork,
branch of Knobbs Greek. The lanEs
to be included in the proposed di
trict, are all such lands as natural
drain into the said South fork
Knobbs Creek at or near the bridd
on the public road of PasquotaI|
County, as the same crosses the ma
stream of KnObbs Greek, or what
known as the Greek road al
thence Westward, along the var;oI
courses or tributaries of the 50
South fork, or Branch of Knob
Creek to include all the lands whit
naturally drain into said stream
aforesaid"
The need for drainage in this ar
is said to be great, as the exists
branches and small creeks are fill
with sticks and leaves and are mad
quate to carry off the water, even
normal rainfalls. A survey OF {
project as proposed, is soon TO
made.
The drainage project in Ncrla
Township, now under way, in what
known as Drainage District, No.
is going ahead rapidly, according
c. w. Lacy, contractor of the can
This canal is to be six miles loI
and most of the ground has be
cleared, SO the contractors repO
The clearing was done IN der
swamp. 1t opens in the Pasquotn
River and will drain 1000 acres
lands in the Newland section.
The approximate cost of the car
is to be $4,000. 1t is to be % fd
wide, by five feet deep at the sour
and 40 feet wide and eight feet dc
at its entrance TO Pasquotank Riy
Such a canal could easily be used
small boats thus adding another N
dunn to the farmers in the sect
for the transportation Of their cl
to town.
1t is estimated that the cana
drain 1000 acres of lands now VI
at about $50 an acre, and tha
Improvement to the lands will
their usefulness and value about
an acre. At this estimate the
are now worth $420,O00, and
i proper drainage will be worth s.
600 more, or 100000.
) Still another drainage projec
contemplated in this county.
time it is to be privately constru
by the Foreman Stock Farms,
in Mt. Herman Township. The
al for this drainage system is
not less than 16 feet nor more
I.NE.
22 feet in width and will drain
acres Of the Foreman properU
thirty-foot right of way was RED
obtained from l.. X. Bundy and
of Moyock, who have granted
Foremans the privilege of cltt
, canal thru a tract known as tie
gan's Mill Swamp adjacent 70
! Foreman property.
The canal is to be pracik
straight with not more than &
foot deviation from the org
course mapped out. Should tbe
al not be constructed within
years, or should it not be
good condition, then the
transferred to the Forema
for this purpose will reY
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