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Show HOMES TOWNS! HELP5EJ EFFECTIVE FLEA FOR ZONING Practicably Impossible to Construct Proper Sewerage System Without ' Up-to-Date Arrangement. The value of completely zoning a city or village is demonstrated in mnny ways. One of these is in the opportunity op-portunity it gives the engineers to design de-sign and build sewer systems on precise pre-cise information as to the character, number and use of buildings that will occupy the district which the sewer system Is to serve. The Information derived from the zoning ordinance and the official maps will tell him in advance that the area to be drained Is zoned, say, for a single-family district. This means to the engineer a smaller density of pop ulntlon, a smaller volume of sewage, shallower and smaller sewers. Without zoning, the engineer Is obliged to estimate the type and intensity in-tensity of the development of any given district and design his sewera on the basis of his estimate. If In his estimate he did not provide pro-vide for large numbers of apartment buildings or hotels, requiring provision for a much greater volume of sewage sew-age and deeper basements to be drained, his sewers will be found to be inadequate to take care ot the district dis-trict as it finally develops. . The Inadequate sewer Is distressing and costly, as It means the backing up of the sewage Into basements, . Involving In-volving the loss of property by Hooding, Hood-ing, the expense of cleaning out the filth and silt which are deposited after the water has seeped away and the menacing the health of occupants of the buildings. From a Report of the Zoning Committee of the Western Society of Engineers. . |