| Show lORE DEATII Seventeen Miles of Sewer Costing Cost-ing Three Hundred Thousand DANGER IN THE SOAP SUDS The Organic Matter Thrown Off Diseased Persons While Bathing Filled With Pestilence Since mankind learned something about sanitary drainage the gods have gone out of the pestilence business With the fresh invigorating breezes that eternally blow over this city and perfect sanitary drainage backed by stringent san itary regulations there is no reason why a man should not live in this even temperature tempera-ture forever free from malignant diseases The old plan of sewer construction was to kenp the gas in the sewer by means of traps and catch basins The new method is to have plenty of ventilators to keep a current of fresh air circulating through the pipes You have no doubt noticed the perforated plates that cover the manholes at close in tervals on tho streets upon which the sow OT C OTO lair These are for the purpose of letting the a ir into the sewer and the ordinance re q uires every man connecting with the sh ewer to erect a stand pipe higher than his se ouse to allow any poisonous gases to e iscape without backing into his cellar Sewer system No 1 said Engineer rooks includes seventeen miles of pipe ar nd will cost 300000 Njne miles are al r eady completed and the balance will bo ph ushed forward as rapidly as bricks can bead pp pb be-ad to build the catch basins No cost has b een spared to make the system as p erfect in a sanitary way as money and skill could make it SEWER DISTRICT XO 1 I ncludes all territory between First West a nd Second East Fifth South and North Temple excepting the property north and e iast of the Eagle gate The construction was very expensive on account of the gravel and quicksands t hrough which it passes Fully three miles of pipe is laid on piles each end of he pipe resting on a pile driven seven feet i nto the sand Then there was the expense of a pumping station to carry the sewerage beyond the Jordan into the waste canal where it will pass away without polluting any of the water near the city The main sewer 22 inches in diameter starts at the Jordan river and runs along Fifth South to Second East thence north to First South west to First East and north to North Temple The latteral pipes are 8 inches in diameter and are laid on both sides of nearly all the streets in the district to save the propertyowner dig ging across the street to connect with the ewer There are Ys 22 feet apart with a carefully prepared record of their location so that a person wanting to connect con-nect his house drain with the sewer can find out the exact space and depth he has to to dig to strike the k Y EXPENSIVE MAN HOLES The man holes are 264 feet apart and arc so constructed that any defect can be seen by looking through the sewer from ono man hole to another They are built of brick layed in cement and cost 122 each THE GREAT PUMP STATION The big feature of the sewerago systems system-s the pump station located on the east bank of the Jordan on Fith South All the sewerage passes into an immense vat called the sump which is 40x00 feet and 14 feet deep holding 15000 gallons This being built of wood and set in the quick sands has a back pressure of 075 tons when tis empty and the Jordan is up To over come this ba kaction it is pinned down to piles driven five feet apart From the sump the big engine pumps the sewerage through a 12 inch iron pipe that passes under the Jordan and leads to a double strength clay tile that runs to the surplus canal a distance of two miles THE mo PUMP Knowles duplex power pump has 14 inch plungers l03 differential plungers and an eighteen inch stroke The passage of material ma-terial to bo pumped is direct through the plungers in a straight line Its capacity is 1000 gallons a minute The electric motor is a Sprague automatic auto-matic 25horse power with a resistance for starting of 500 volts The speed is 800 revolutions Pulley 12 inches in diameter 1034 in face and weighs 3000 pounds In case of any accident to the machinery an overflow has been put in to carry the sewage into the Jordan The cost of the pumping station complete will run from S15OCO to 25000 The best sewerage system in the world is of no account unless used There are nearly as many cesspools green scummed with death as before the 300000 plant was built The first good move that was of the new order was to drain the Walker house ow which had an EXCEEDINGLY BAD ODOR before the disease was tapped The thousands thou-sands of privy vault that stifle the air with a variety of plagues should be abated There is as much danger from wash water as anything else The organic matter thrown off from diseased persons while bathing is alive with germs that if allowed to fester in a cess pool will fill the air with more kinds of pestilence than can be hatched out of the debris of a slaughterhouse slaughter-house |
