The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
Pavement, Sewers, Water Mains Are
 Now Being Laid
Citys Asphalt Plant Proves Invaluable in Supplying City With Mixed Materials For Paving - Many Large Concerns Find it Cheaper to Buy From Municipal Plant

Mill street will be of reinforced con. crete base with sheet asphalt top- ping.
 Cooke street from Pennington avenue to a point north of Green wood avenue will be paved with reinforced concrete base and sheet asphalt topping. Brook street will also be provided with a per- manent. pavement but of differ ent type. The Belgian block now on the street will be relaid and grouted with concrete and a sheet asphalt topping will be applied which will make the pavement of the same type as laid on Freight street last year.
 The construction of proper chan. mel walls and the invert for Great Brook is about 90 per cent com pleted, there being about 20 feet of construction remaining to be finished. When this is completed. Great Brook will be encased from East Main street to the Naugatuck river. Curbing is now being con- structed on Brook street and this will be followed by the laying of concrete sidewalks from East Main street, both sides, to Scoyill street. All overhead wires and poles have been eliminated on Brook street and street lights set on ornamen- tai iron standards. These have already been placed and are in use.
 Watertown avenue paving be- tween Robbins street and Bunker Hill avenue will be started the early part of next week. This project will add an additional six feet of width to the travelled area of Wa tertown avenue and will eliminate traffic compositions which now oc- cur between these points.
 Asphalt for these various paving projects will be mixed at the city's own plant located at Benedict street. This plant was remodeled two years ago and Is now consid- cred one of the best and most mod ern mixing plants in New England. Visitors from the public works de- partment of Providence, R. l., and Pawtucket. R. l., and the state highway department have recently inspected this plantfwith the view of building similar plants for their public works departments. The as- phalt plant at the city yard not only has capacity enough to fur nish sufficient material for any and all paving jobs which the city un- dertakes but Is also capable of turning out the mixture which is used for patching of paved and oiled streets. f,r
 A considerable amount of as- phalt and the scratch mixture Is also used by several of the large local manufacturing concerns and as the city plant is the only one now in operation, this material Is bought from the city. Among the larger users who purchase from the city are the Scovill Mfg Co, the Connecticut Go, the N. r.. N. H. & H. R. R. company, M. J. Daly & Sons and numerous small contract ors and individuals. The city makes a fair profit on the materials sold but at the same time Is able to supply 1t to these concerns at a lower figure than would be posst- ble if 1t had to be trucked to Wat erbury from out of town.
 The asphalt used on the streets of Waterbury has been subjected to severe tests at the chemical lab oratorics of some of the large as- phalt producers. and the results of these tests have showed that the mixture prepared at the local rr1u- nicipal plant Is on a par with that produced anywhere in the United States, Part of the secret of pro- ducing good asphalt is to have a proper grade of sand available and the city is very fortunate in hay ing located on its own property ad- jacent to the East Mountain reser- voir deposit of sand which is just the proper texture for asphalt mix ing. One of the reports received from the testing laboratories showed that this grade of sand was the nearest to a perfect combine ton of grades that had been sub- mitted for test in over two years.
 Water mains are being replaced on Manville street and Patterson court in the Waterville section and the replacement of mains on Fort Hill avenue and Tudor street will get under way as soon as the ma terial, which has been ordered. is received.
 The oiling of streets in. various sections of the city is still being carried on and a number of streets. which have not been oiled in past years. will be included in this years prOpranl