Evening star., 1950-09-28
Sewer Budget
Of $6,311,27O
Asked in 81
$4,806. JAG Of Sum
Sought to Extend
District System


Extensive construction of storm
water sewers is proposed by the
District Sewer Division in it's $6,-
311.270 budget estimate for the
fiscal year 1852, made public to-
day.
The estimate, $1,953, $40 higher
than the appropriation for this
fiscal year, Is made up Of ST.
505,124 in operating expenses and
81, ,806,146 in proposed additions
to the sewer system.
Devoted to urgently needed
stormwater and relief sewers, in
cluding work in the Piney Branch
area, is proposed $2,165, 900. An
estimated 80 per cent of this work
is designed to relieve severe food
ing. and the rest, to permit new
development.
The work would be a continua-
ton OF the projects carried in the
six-year plan developed in 1916,
according to Harold A. Kemp,
director of sanitary engineering.
Cost Estimate Scars.
Estimated cost of the program
at that time was $18,355, 900.
Through fiscal 1850, some Sc, 6,300,-
600 was spent on it. Besides that,
the District spent $1,250,000 on
other projects considered neces-
sary which were not in the six
year plan.
Based on the present value of
money, however, Mr.. Kemp said,
the six-year program would cost
$31 million. Relating the work
already done on it to present
costs, 81 million worth has been
accomplished, leaving $24 million
worth yet to be undertaken.
In addition to this $24 million
more than the total originally
contemplated for the whole pro-
gram-some $50 million worth of
work has become necessary since
the plan was developed.
It is required because of the
building up of the city and the
attendant increase in "impervious"
run-oft area, Mr.. Kemp ex-
planned. That means the paved
area where water cannot sink
into the ground.
Contract Expected Soon.
- The first section of a relief
sewer in the Piney Branch area
Is expected to be placed unden
contract this fiscal year. The en-
tire project will cost an estimated
$2.5 million and will take five
years for construction, according
to plans. It will begin in the Vi
cinity of Arkansas avenue and
Sixteenth street NV.
y The Sewer Division asks ST.
100000 in fiscal 1852 for complet-
ing sludge-drying and sewageI
chlorination facilities 90 the Sew
age Treatment Plant at Blue |
Plains. Congress appropriated
$500, 1000 toward this work this
fiscal year.
The District hopes to start work
IN September. 1852. on a second
ary aeration plant which ulti-
mately will cost about So million.
1t will take about eight years and
is needed to permit removal of
the necessary amount of pollution
to keep the Potomac River in sat
isfactory sanitary condition.
Would Remodel Station.
The division asks 100000 for
remodeling of the Poplar Point
Substation, which services about
4.500 acres in the District and
Maryland east of the Anacostia
river and north of st. Elizabeths
Hospital and Alabama avenue.
The station was built in 1915,
and equipment has not been re-
placed since 1929. It is greatly
overloaded because of the growth
Of Northeast and Southeast WASH
tngton and the Maryland area.
Also requested are $780, 900 for
sewer work in advance of high
way paving; $s08,00O for assess
ment and permit work-place-
ment Of sewers in new develop
ments; 100000, for replacement
Of old worn out sewers; $4,000 to
acquire rights of way; $4,000 for
stormwater sewer studies, and
$37, 7,146 for new trucks.