Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Saving Is Due
To Reduction in
Water Projects
BY JOHN w. STEPP

The District Commissioners
today were confronted with the
phenomenon of budget esti-
mates for one of the city's major
operations calling for SCI mil
lion less than the previous years
appropriation.
The overall fund request Of
$25, 494. 900 for the fiscal year
beginning next July l comes
from the District Sanitary En-
cheering Department and the
Washington Aqueduct operated
by the Army Engineer Corps.
Sanitary Engineering has the
responsibility of distributing
Washington's drinking water,
disposing of its sewage and
storm water and collecting its
trash and garbage. The Aque-
duct collects and purifles the
water supply for distribution by
the city agency.
Less Construction Work
Explanation for the greatly
reduced fund demand is taper
ing off in the construction work
of both agencies.
With their last big appropria-
ton of $3.5 million approved for
the current fiscal year, the Army
Engineers ended fund require
ment to finish the Little Falls
dam, pumping station and raw
water tunnel to the Dalecarlia
filter plant. The $953,000 re-
quested for fiscal 1858 is to be
spent chiefly on completing i'm
Iprovements already under way
at the Dalecarlia plant itself.
The Sanitary Engineering De-
Ipartment's capital outlay re-
quirements for 1858 are $4.4 mill
lion lower than the SIS million
construction money appropriated
for current fiscal 1857.
The newest budget items, while
more numerous than the last,
do not number among them such
whoppers as fiscal 1875 big
four" which ranged from $1.2
million to $5.4 million.
/ In terms of operating costs,
both agencies state they will
need increases totaling 1851 900.
The biggest individual chunk, Of
this sum will go to staff the new
secondary treatment section now
under construction at the sewage
treatment plant at Blue Plains.
1 Routine increases In costs
raise the Aqueduct's operating
.lexpense BY $4,000 ovet the cur
trent $2,137,000 appropriation.
/ Aside from a 100000 request
to acquire a site for the pro-
posed Incinerator No. 4 in the
vicinity Of Riggs road NE. the
capital outlay items requested
by Sanitary Engineering are
: mostly for extending or replace
ing existing water and sewer
, lines.
List of Projects
The major projects:
Slash Run Easily Point relief
sewer for combined sanitary
storm water drainage to reduce
sewage flows into Rock Creek,
: Sis million.
4 Water transmission main
from Dalecarlia to Georgetown
: Reservoir to improve water dis
tribution in the "old city" part
a of Washington, $975 900.
Southeast relief water main to
: improve supply to Anacostia
area, $4,000.
0 Water main from Pennsyl-
a vania avenue Sc. to Benning
d road NE. along east bank OF
e Anacostia River, 100000.
4 Michigan Avenue Valley storm
: sewers carrying rain drainage
into Maryland, 1868, 900.
q Polk street storm sewer in
\ the vicinity Of the Lily Ponds
4 $4,000
d Completion Of the last por.
Q ton of the secondary treatment
: section Of the sewage plant, a,
n well as general betterments IL
: the Blue Plains installation
$434 900.
II Construction Of water mains
: and separation Of the present
e combined sanitary-storm water
4 sewer system in the Southwest
e lredeyelopment area.