| Show MANY COMPLAIN L II AT LONG DELAY File Petitions for Connections With Sewer Laterals E CONDITION OF OUTLET PIPE PUMPS PUI PS MAY START THIS WEEK AT INTERCEPTING G STATION n 1 r J 7 city attorney has pre pro prewar war r wd ard d a waiver of the rights of the Building company com pan which may mayb t h id d I if the city starts the pumps at w intercepting sewer station This I vr rt t Mr Ur Campbell of the contract yesterday esterday announced himself g T to sign There Is a possibility t a ar r the fhe pumps will be started this week S Y t b 1 some who have inspected the theare i II are prepared to wager that the thet it c t pipe ppe as laid will never be a suc sue Ti Tre re have been many conflicting state staten n rpt t regarding this work The intercept t I tc Sewer sp er was finished many months The Th rh pumping station has been built d the th machinery installed In line with c p methods of the city elt an engineer was wasI 1 I and anit given charge before the work was u ready for opening o and before the then th n i was as really in It is the f i t of wood stave stae pipe the tail tall end of ti b work that has delayed de ayed the whole wet ti given a black eye to the tue sewer of or the w west st side sit i IK councIl Is divided on the Mi it tim ii T R If Black is one ane of those who HI with ith the city engineer and he be belins will eventually have hav havIK ii lins that the city IK 1 th the Whole outlet Others say sayat ai at if the he pumps are started it will help 11 f i to get got the ater out of 11 tIP WiLY way av Others say that there are bulk bulked ed iad pd in fT the UI Intercepting sewer itself I Ind and rid nd that it will wili take time to remove these thes m we hold that to start the pumps would I b M to In do away with all 11 chance of test testing t t i ivr the th outlet because if the pumps vr ing fn r stopped to t have hare he the test lest made mad made the I waler in the sewers se ers and laterals would bark hack up and there would be a bunch of Iima e suits against the city on hand The Till only thing known with certainty Is Ismat that mat the whole sewer system of the west westside side Ide lisa las been held up for Cor months Kelcy Says Nothing T I f Kelsey city engineer has Id a peculiar position during the wran wrangle Tan KIp gle g over oer th the outlet work lIe He Is the eltos cit and although the American members of the council thought Hough of him In that capacity to to raise inv Iti ray pay recently It has been a long Ion time MI i he was asked a single question tI work He smiles when it Is Isi IsY i Y He sits In the council and hears the mem members larl hanl of works meetings bers birs over oer the condition of the TIP ipe smiles and says sas nothing During Durin the work has haJ i 1011 of the tbt arguments over HI fly member mem r asked for Cor his opinion as to toi i In no state of the work though they have hae Oil oa a number of occasions asked for vr from the city attorney attorn e on the legal phases Kelsey has said that the wood stave Mae pipe as It was being laid would not do Like some others he is prepared to hear that th the entire work may have to tol tobe l be e done over again The board of worKS has on its force Coree a dozen men mer who are employed as inspectors tors on city contracts and who are arc paid 13 33 for every day da they work These In Inspectors were employed In various voca vocations vocatiOns lions and wore w given ghen their inspection jobs job jobby by the board bo rd as rewards for assisting la L ii American party part parades and other political services Some of them were wee supposed to have hae been on this work from the Hie beginning but leaks were found In the pipe when an attempt was made mide to test it The importance of having the inter inte plin s sewer ewer put In working work In order can cam cambe be bt understood when It is known that It with its laterals fifteen miles Other laterals will be built as soon Oon as the sewer is doing doln business It will wll drain the whole western portion of the city and will permit of the abandonment of the til th present outlet in the Jordan for the gravity sewer sew Contractor Lost Lo Money There is no doubt that the contractor contract for the wood stave sta e pipe outlet has lost money some say It Is alsa al altrue true that the city Is out money through tic t he delay and trouble to which It has been n put At least it has lost 13 a day p raid Ud aid to each of the inspectors who have worked long IonS after the time set to fin fint finh t jh h the work vork None of the big contractors touch the job and each of them themI I that it would be a failure The west side has been complaining complain ing ill for a long time at the delay and there r e a load of petitions to connect with the Uie sewer seer laterals |
