The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-19
h EsIlMATE
FOR ERECTING
FLOOD LEvEES
v,ste4ion Of Manufacturing Dis.
! lt6et TO Cost s131,S Accord.
ing TO Engineers.

Rl0Od protection IN the west enQ
M cost $131,554 according to a
ss.tatiye estimate Of the United
s..tes Engineers office submitted
= small gathering Of citizens in
~ Rock Island Chamber Of Com
merce rooms yesterday afternoon, at
-bich the industrial commission Of
he organization, the Rock Island
real Estate board, and manufac-
turers were represented. M. s.
Heagy presided and Otto F. Hide
brandt was secretary.
The engineering estimate, al
though only tentative in character.
represents the first attempt to Sc
srure figures on the cost of levees
"a do away with the flood menace.
The figures are the result of a con-
ference at which Colonel Harry
Burgess, former head of the Rock
island district, United States Eh-
gineers, who before his transfer Of
fered his cooperation to manufac-
turers and civic bodies several
months ago. That cooperation was
continued by his successor, Major
C. Beverly Dunn.
II was voted yesterday that Tie
.ecretary express the appreciation
Of all interested to Colonel Bur-
cess and to Major Dunn.
The meeting adjourned after de-
eision to call another session OF
manufacturers and representatives
OF civic bodies in the near future
for further discussion of the esti-
mate and contemplated improve
ment. Il is understood that the
chances for government aid are
slight, and that the improvement if
projected will be city proposition.
The financing is matter which
will engage the attention of the
next meeting. -
Crest Above 1892 Mark. v
A. L. Richards, assistant United
States engineer, presented an esti-
mate of the cost OF concrete leyee
running from First street and
Fourth avenue to the detention
hospital, and for a dirt levee or enl'
lankment to extend from thai
point to Eighteenth avenue and
olrth street.
The concrete levee is for dis
,:nca of 3,490 feet, the levee to have
/; est elevation a foot above ths
! h water of 1892. This wall is t.
h. three feet below the grOunG
iacc.
From the Detention hospital t.
ighteanth avenue and Fourth
street, a distance Of 2,6S5 feet Il
covered. The levee embankment i
10 have a crest three feet above tn
high water of 1892.
1t is planned that levee b.
constructed across the Lily slough
to be IA feet high with slopes Goa
structed in a to l ratio, and
crown width of six feet.
The engineer reported that h
questioned the economic advantage
Of borrowing the material for this
embankment owing to the value o.
this land for manufacturing pur
poses.
He reported that for a levee Il
feet high, with six foot crown
and side slopes 8 to ratio and
lO-foot BERN on each side, a RICH
of way of 10 feet would be re
quired, TO which would have to b
added the borrow pits on each sid'
of the levee, seven feet deep ant
80 feet wide, which would make
total right of way of 210 feet.
II was presumed in the repor
that the city would donate thu
width of Eighteenth avenue. Nin'
acres would be required. which i
was estimated could be secured fcl
$500 an acre, or total of $13.5O'
The engineer further states tina
it is not recommended to make tn
necessary fill from borrow pits a!
it would require too much valuable
acreage and with the deep pits re
quired it is considered seepag'
would be excessive, so the esti
mate contemplates the hauling o
material from some distant poin
at an estimated price Of $1.25 a Gu
bic yard.
The presumption is expressc'
that the property owners will do
nate the right q way for the con
crete levee.
Il is asserted that the Rock Is
land Lines tracks will have to b
raised three feet in order to NEE
the levee three feet above the ex
IRENE high water level.
The spur track just east OF tn
detention hospital must be raise
nine feet in order to get over th
levee and the track at First stree
and Fourth avenue must be raise
IL feet.
The concrete levee, it is statet
Will require back filling its entir
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