Evening star., 1945-01-21
Board Accepts
Bid for Plans
On Sewer Plant
Arlington Is Given
$500, 900 Estimate
On Improvements

The Arlington County Board yes
terday authorized County Manager
Frank c. Hanrahan and Richard
Writ, county sanitary engineer, to
negotiate with Alexander Potter
Associates of New York for prelim.
mary plans for an enlarged sew
age treatment plant, estimated to
cost $500,000, The company SUBJ
mitted a figure of $22 1000 for prep
aration Of the plans.
In recommending that the plans
be authorized, Mr.. Writ said he
believes that only by having our
projects designed and blueprinted
now can the time gap between
peace and industrial changeover be
bridged"
The treatment plant is eight
years old, he said, and for several
years has been operating beyond
its capacity. Machinery and equip
ment, he added, should be replaced
If operation of the plant is to con-
tinue.
If we have the future plans, we
can save thousands of dollars by
replacing the old equipment with
new that will fit into the design of
the enlarged plant and will not
have to be discarded" he pointed
out.
Says Need is Urgent.
| Describing the need for an In
cineratorias urgent" Mr.. Writ said
plans for it should be co-ordinated
with plans for a treatment plant.
BY locating them together. he said,
the treatment plant could supply
fuel for the incinerator and its
operators could tend it. Grease and
screenings, which now have to be.
buried could be burned in tte.in-
cinerator, he added.
Action on the long studied county
incinerator also moved forward a
step when the board adopted a
motion, accepting in principle the
proposed incinerator lease plan un-
der which the Federal Government
would finance the project and lease
the incinerator to the county for
an annual fee of $17,500. with each
payment applying toward its pur-
chase.
County Engineer c. l.. Kinnier
was directed to submit new report
on acquiring sidewalk right-of-
way and also an estimate as to its
construction cost, on South High
land street, between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets.
Seen Hazardous to Children.
This area has been designated by
residents as particularly dangerous
to school children who have no
place to walk to avoid traffic dam
gers.
| On request of Charles Birch,
president of the Arlington Auxiliary
Police Club, that the County Board
set aside day before April / for
school children to operate the
county government. q motion was
adopted requesting County Manager
Hanrahan to confer with Fletcher
Kemp, school superintendent; Law
renee w. Douglas, commonwealth
attorney, and Police Chief Harry L.
woodward as to the feasibility Of
the proposal A report for the next
board meeting was requested.
Pointing out that the terms of all
five members of the County Utility
Commission have expired, neces-
stating reappointments, Board
Chairman F. Freeland Chew moved
that the county law authorizing the
board chairman to name the mem
bers be repealed and that the ell
tire board act in the matter. This
motion was adopted.
A subsequent motion by Leo Lloyd
that the entire commission men,
bership be reappointed was with
drawn at the request of Board
Member Basil De Lashmutt, who
said he was "unprepared" to take
immediate action and asked a two
week deferment.
Pay Boost Urged for Nurses.
! In response to a request by Mrs.
Charles E. Planck of the Committee
to Aid Public Health Nurses that
the salaries of two nurses be raised
to $1,650, Mr.. Chew explained that
funds to pay them comes from the
State Health Department. He
added that an agreement had been
made not to change nurses salaries.
One nurse now receives $500
year and the other receives $3.50.
Mr.. Chew said that the nurses
might be drafted in another month
and the county might have to do
without their services. He said the
salary question was budget matter
and the board could not act on it at
this time. The health officer, he
added, has not asked for any pay
raises for nurses.