The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-08
NEW STORM DRAIN .
 REMOVES HAZARD
ThOmastOn Ave Intersec- ton Made Safe for Pas-
 sage of Motorists
WATERVILLE

One of the biggest improvements in connection with the new sani- tary sewer and pavement in Thom- aston avenue is the installation of adquate drainage facilities at the intersection of Thomaston avenue with Homer street and Huntingdon avenue. In the past after every un usually heavy rain storm a minia- ture lake has formed at the inter- section as the existing storm water drains proved inadequate to meet the situation. As a result water to the depth of several inches would accumulate from the Joseph Well ton property, north to St Michaeps and Grace churches. It was not an uncommon experience to see sev- eral cars stranded at this point and to see trolley service seriously in- convenienced. In addition there was always deposit of silt remaining to be cleared away after the water had finally seeped away.
 The storm drain formerly ran through Huntingdon avenue to Hancock Brook at point near the bridge and functioned successfully
 until the Berbecker and Rowland company installed flashing on their dain. This raising the water level in the brook so that it rose above the drain outlet in extra heavy rain storms forcing the drain to back up into Thomaston avenue.
 The new drain is being laid in the highway southerly to Creek Brook having its outlet near the culvert opposit the Welton proper ty. This will permanently correct what had become one of the worst
 highway conditions in the city fol- Motorists on High Road" Warned Waterville motorists who use
 Waterv.'le street, or the Thigh road" as it is commonly called locally, are warned to be watchful for children coasting on several of the intersecting streets. There have been 8 number of near-ac-
 cidents during the past few days. The streets which are being used for coasting are Faber avenue, Fiske street, Chapman avenue, and Wyman street. None of these are included in the list of streets for
 mally approved by the board of aldermen as designated for coast ing but there seems to be no pos- sibility of preventing coasters from
 using them. Consequently motor- ists must use care at the inter- sections mentoined in order to help to avoid which might be serious situations.
 Another section of Waterville street about which motorists
 should be warned is the intersec- tion with Willow street where a spring or leaky water pipe has caused thick formation of ice to form. At various times during the extremely cold weather of the past few days this has created bad ruts which have cause da number of broken automobile springs. City employees have done a creditable job in clearing most of the ice formation in the highway but 1t sometimes gets ahead of them again creating 8 dangerous traffic hazard.
 B. and w. Receivelship Extended Judge John A. Cornell of the superior court, will tomorrow consider the request that the BeardsIey & Wolcott Manufactur- ing company of Thomaston avenue,
 continue under receivership man. agement for at least three more
 weeks. Permission had previous ly been given to operate through
 February 10th and James R. Shell don, the receiver has requested the extentiLn so that negotiations may