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Show Unheal il:y AVnf!iiitlou I'luls Washington, 5. Cul, Albert, who has charge of tbo improvement of tho Potomac, says tho flats with deposits made on them by S asiiington sewera seriously aflect the health of the city, and proposes a plan for tho abatement nf tha nuisance. Tho plan is to dredge out the so called Virginia channel from Ksby Point to the arsenal, and use tho drawings to reclaim re-claim the cntiro area between that chauuel and the city front, thus leaving leav-ing one wide deep channel, inaicad of two comparatively shallow ones with half submerged flits between them. Coi. Albert estimates the codt of the work at -2,O!'0,00i), and recommends that it bo defrayed by an nnry.ial np-nrnpri'ition np-nrnpri'ition of'iloO.OOO to $200, OeO, uchl tho improvement is completed. |