Show ERROR CIlY rust Must Pay Cost of Additional Excavation Excavation Excavation for Sewers The city Is out through some ones error W J Halloran of the board of public works blames L C Kelsey city engineer The rhe other members of the board are more charitable and refuse to place the blame Their exCUse Is that It just happened and that precedent had something to do with It ft The facts developed af at a a meeting of the board of public works yesterday esterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon It appears that one J P Kennedy has bas the contract for laying sewers sewers on the north bench In what is known as sewer extension No This estimates of the engineer upon which the assessments were based show that the specifications were wee made on the time basis of an un average excava excavation excavation excavation tion of nine feet As a matter of fact Kennedy Kenne y has been compelled in most in instances instances stances to excavate from between four fourteen fourteen fourteen teen and sixteen feet and tIme the J city will have to pay pa for this tit Is extra work From the discussion it developed that when tle specifications were made no account was taken of the depth of the cel eel lars ham of the adjoining residences from which the sewerage must be hc drained d In Inmost Inmost most cases a trench would not allow any drop dro into the sewer from the pipes leading to the cellars and so the contractor had to go deeper in order to tomake t make the sewers of any am use It has been figurea that this extra etra worK woric will nil amount to and the tha city will have to pay it as the assessment was wai made before the work worl began and was based on the time defective estimates estimate of the cost of the work w rk A new assessment can cannot cannot cannot not be made and the money must come from somewhere else Where that some somewhere somewhere somewhere where Is no one knows and in its dl di dilemma lemma the whole matter was referred frred to the time city council for consideration Incidentally it was acknowledged bt bV F J Leonard chairman of the board that If Jf the new law which the administration tion has endeavored to make people be believe lieve lIev was passed by b a hostile ho tUe legislature in order to hold up public work had haI ha been In force when the contract was let there would be no trouble The new law provides that the assessment shall shaH be made after the entire work Is done and shall not be based upon the engineer engineers es estimates estimates estimates but on the actual cost rost |