Evening star., 1938-09-29
Eight School Projects Lost
To D. C.. Under P. ". 4. Quota
Ward for Glenn Dale Hospital and
Library Branches Also Fail to Find
Place on 1898 S pendin e Program.

$500. 900 for q new tuberculosis unit
at Freedmen's Hospital. $283,577 for
new barracks at Fort Myer and $2l2,.
900 to construct new span for Key
Bridge. Another project from which
Washington residents will benefit is
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, in pay
ment for which Mr.. Ickes yesterday
turned over a 100000 check to the
receivers of the canal company.
OF the newly allotted funds for
sewer construction, $817,325 was re-
served for extension in other sections
than the Rock Creek area.
These items include $739. 900 for an
outfau sewer to relieve the bottle
neck" frequently caused in the trunk
line at the pumping station and to
erect flood gates at the Blue Plains
disposal plant.
Another sum Of $50, 700 is for extern
sion of the Oxen Run interceptor from
Second and Waller streets Sc. to Thir-
teenth street. Funds had previously
been made available for building the
interceptor from the Blue Plains plant
to Second street. Eventually the prof.
ect will extend into Maryland.
There was also provided $17,725 to
complete the disposal plant at the
Glenn Dale tuberculosis Hospital.
Partial De-Pollution Expected.
The Rock Greek trunk sewer, which
will cost $3,7lO,OOO, will do much
to relieve the pollution problem in that
stream, but is not counted upon for
100 per cent elimination.
However. it was learned, partly from
an informal review of old plans for
elimination of Rock Greek pollution,
that while most of the District pollu-
ton of Rock Greek would be eliminated
from the District stream, the pollution
that results from rainfall overflow of
the system still would find its way into
the Potomac within the District, just
above the Water Gate.
There are now sanitary sewer inter-
ceptors down both sides of Rock Greek
from Piney Branch Valley to the
mouth of Rock Greek, where they are
connected with the interceptor which
runs across the lower portion of the
District to the sewage treatment plant
at Blue Plains, D. c. The pollution
problem under the existing system re-
suits from the fact that in times of
rainfall these sewer mains are not
large enough to carry the sanitary
sewage plus the great amount Of storm
water. There are roughly "a emer-
gency outlets along Rock Greek and
Piney Branch, through which both
storm water and sanitary sewage es-
cape in times of rainfall.
Opposite Reoreational Area.
While the new and expensive inter-
ceptor sewers to be built down either
side of Rock Creek from Piney
Branch south will be connected with
the interceptors running to the treat.
ment plant and will intercept all dry
weather sanitary how, it was learned
in times Of rainfall the overflow will be
dumped into the Potomac River near
the mouth of Rock Greek.
This rain-time overflow now reaches
roughly the same point via Piney
Branch and Rock Greek. Thus II
appears that by the expenditure Of
$3,710,000 the pollution and odor,
which are left in Piney Branch anc
Rock Greek during and after storms
or most of twill be removed from
Rock Greek valley, but still will be
emptied into the Georgetown Channe
Of the Potomac River, directly opposite
Theodore Roosevelt Island. which 4