Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-28
district TO BUILD
BIG DUMP SYSTEM
|ransfer Station Near Navy
Yard viii Collect Trash to
Fill 0xon Run Bay.
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bntinue these dumps for sanitary
lasons even before they are COM
etely filled.
Considered Use of Barges.
Three general plans were con-.
ldered: "a Disposal of refuse in the
1otomac River, using barges; (2)
transporting material by rail well out
re Of the city into Maryland and
irginia; and (3) long.haul dumps
thin the District or nearby Viz
1inia.
Maj. Covell explains that conference
nth the United States engineer for
his rivers and harbors district
luickly demonstrated that the first
If these plans was impracticable at
he present time. In the first place,
mere is no location within any
an be dumped from barges without
he necessity of over-casting. The
district engineers Office would also
Insist on material being well con-
med, which would add to the ex-
Pense of disposal.
The transporting of refuse by rail
fairly distant points is undoubtedly
he best method which WILL have to
e followed in the somewhat distant
uture. At present, however, this
nethod is expensive. Land would
ave to be purchased for the dump,
transfer station within the city
you'd have to be erected, and the
Material would have to be rehandled
{ the dump. This method would,
owever. be perfectly satisfactory to
he engineer department of the Dis
riot government, the only objection
icing the relative cost, Maj. Coyell
Emphasized.
Long-haul dumps within the Dis
riot or in nearby Virginia seem to
sffer the best solution for the next 10
o 20 years. A general inspection of
learby Virginia, as well as the local
4 ty adjacent to Blue Plains at Oxon
Run, was made. For various reasons
preference was given by Maj Covell
nd Mr.. Hacker to this latter location.
Tractors Thought Cheapest.
The question of hauling the ma
erial to the dump was studied and
is believed that transportation by
FACTOR and trailer is more salts
|actory and cheaper than trans
bortation by rail. The cost of
delivering and handling refuse at
DXon Run by tractor and trailer is
Estimated at Is cents to 80 cents a
on. The best rate that the railroad
company has offered is 20 cents per
on for ashes and 76 cents per ton
for street cleanings from Anacostia
|Uniontown) to Shepherd Landing.
If the material were handled by the
railroad a loading station would have
TO be built in Anacostia. 1t is pos
hble, but neither practicable or eco
nomical, to do this. Also, in the
event of the use OF the railroad,
here would be the cost of rehandling
he material from the railroad cars
b the dump, all Of which is obviated
BY hauling it by tractor and trailer
20 the dumping ground. With a
maximum of 1000 cubic yards per
lay in the Winter period lone cubic
yard equals 1850 pounds) it Is evil
lent that the saving made by tractor
ind trailer would be very consid-
srable.
A station where the refuse can be
from the collecting
wagons to railroad trains or trailers
s necessary in any method to be fol-
owed. The site recommended near
he gas plant, east of the navy yard,
Maj. Covell believes, is the least OBJ
ectionable to be found. He argues
that If a little time and money are
spent on constructing good-looking
this receiving station could
oe made not unsightly. This location
Is on a direct line to the proposed
lump. It is on the railroad, so that
when the Oxon Run dump is filled, In
10 to 20 years, the transfer station
IAN still be utilized.
The site at OxOn Run, as recon-
mended in the Covdl-Hacker report.
seems to the Engineer Department OF