Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-10
SEWER FIGHT ENDS
W|THCONSTRUCT|ON
County Supervisors Settle
Long Controversy Over
Line in Clarendon.
BY LESTER n. INSKEEP,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va April 10.-Acting on the
authority given them under an act OF
the last Legislature, the board Of county
supervisors Is now bringing to definite
close an issue that has tried their
serenity and that Of other county ON
Gals for the past 10 years.
The bone OF contention has been an
open sewer at Clarendon and Fort
avenues. and the supervisors and MEM
bers of the engineers office were unable
to do ANYTHING about it until the State
Legislature gave them the power to
assess adjacent property owners the cost
of the work, providing that they were
petitioned by at least so per cent Of
the persons affected.
This petition was presented recently
TO the board and work Is now under
way in the laying of more than half
mile of main line. It will extend from
Clarendon and Fort avenues to line
in Lyon Park that Is owned by the
real estate firm Of Lyon g. Fitch.
Cost Only $4,000.
While the total cost of laying the
main trunk lines will be only about
$4,000, 1t Is expected that the lateral
lines that will be constructed to 1t viii
double this amount The lateral lines
will be handled in the same manner as
that employed on the financing Of the
trunk line, the citizens presenting q
petition to the board and being assessed
the entire cost.
This petition has not yet been pre-
sented, but, according to Thomas N.
De Lashmutt, county sanitary officer,
is now being circulated and will prob
ably be presented at the next meeting
of the board, which takes place next
Monday.
There are between IS and 30 homes
to be served by the new line in q Sec
ton that has never before had sewerage,
the line running to It's present termina-
ton where it drained into an open
ditch.
There are between IS and 80 homes
to be served by the new line in q
section that has never before had sewer
age. the line running to Its present
termination where 1t drained into an
open ditch.
The county health ofiicer at one time
employed legal action in an attempt to
force the closing of the open sewer, but
at that time there was no legislation
in effect that could be used to force
the issue, the matter lying dormant
until a law was passed that would
permit definite action.
Head Of Trunk Line.
The new line forms the head Of the
Four Mile Run trunk line and will be a
part of the sewerage system that is ex-
pected to be installed In all of the
thickly populated sections of the county
At the opening Of the April term of
Circuit Court, which takes place on
Monday, Commemorative Attorney VIII
liam C. Cloth and State Senator Frank
L. Ball are expected to present to the
court a petition to consider the entire
county as one unit in setting the bound
aries for the work.
Original plans called for several dis
tricts, the boundaries Of which were
set, but met with the opposition Of other
sections that wished to be included In
the first project carried out.
Following a decision on the bound
aries, the court will be asked to set a
date for an election on q bond issue
to finance the sewerage system.