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Show ' n OGDEN'E ENLARGED SEWER SYSTEM. HBHJ One of the b.g Itejns in ihe bond election or March 26 Is the nuihortza BBBB tion of an expenditure of $325.0011 for BBBB the outfall or sanitary sewer, which BBBB ll to be a six mile extension of the BBBB present main sower system of Ogden BBBB s described in the city engineer'! report, the original sewer system 0 BBBl Ogden City was constructed during thr- year 1890. Additions have been mad. BBBfl (herein from lime to time necessitated. The system was designed BBBl to drain all that portion of Ogden CitJ east of the Weber river, south of (k den river, west of the mountains and BBBJ north of a line drawn northeasterly BBBJ from Washington avenue at the south corporation line to Twenty fourth BBBl street at the mountains, nnd of a line BBBJ i drawn northwesterly from tin- same BBBJ point and Weber river and Thirty si , ond street. Tim main outfall sewer BBBJ was built alone Wall avenue running north to Twenty I Irst street, (hence BBBJ west on Twenty first Street to the Wc- BBBJ ber river. The main along Wall gve BBBJ nue will drain all that territory east BBBJ of Wall avenue and south of Twenty- first street and is of sufficient capa- city, excluding thereform all storm BBBJ water, to take care of a population that is figured will occupy the area fifty BBBJ years hence. This sysiem Is in pood BBBJ working order However, in the dS BBBJ si.cn of the original system no provl- sion was made for the sewering oi thai district in Ogden OltJT Weal of Wall BBBJ avenue and north of Ogden river, that . being the district we are now con Y-i cerned with, in so far as providing Hf sewers for the balance of Ogden Ciiv. ,4 Studies for a sewer north oi Ogdeu ') river were made in and I'M" b j 1 ; City Engineer Parker, and also In the 1 , years 1910 and 1911 by City Engineer Dostaph. Slight progress, however. 1 was made and no definite plans or )a outs were worked out. On March 10, 1916. the city board ol commissioners Instructed tho city i J engineer to make the npeessary pridim i inary surveys and plans for a sewer 3 system north of Ogden river. Tin j work of compiling the data was minx T! Z diately started. Preliminary surveys I and plans wero made with a tentative j BBBJ ;T design for a sewer system north of I '' Ogden river. I'pon further inve: J 7- ion, however, it was found advisable BBa fir' mRp a Study for a sower system j for all of Ogd n City, and upon that ij basis a system was designed. Reports I were made to the city comini.-Momi s j on November i 1916, January -!, 1917, and February 1, 1917, which reports 1 nave outlines and recommendations v for the sewer problem In Ogden In' ; eonjunction with these Investigations) I A. F. Parker waG employed mb consult- j ing engineer. Or Samuel Fortier ofj the department oi agriculture, togethei with his assistant. Milo P.. William". ; were consul I ed ms to the design of the sewer system and also on the mailer t J as to the dlaposal of the IStrngg ft. j B Tarb'-ti. ;.: oi ftlj BSnltar; I ncer. V. S. public health service, wa-consulted wa-consulted relative (o the use of the; sewage for liTicadon purvos b Professor Pro-fessor E. H. Bedatitrand of tho Univef-i Univef-i glty of I'tah ha? been COhitilted rela-; rela-; tive to the designs of the sewe: . lions. All these gentlemen bate ffladi reports to the city relative io the sewer problem under consid' ration IK Br-alty of the state bdltfd of health j was shown, on May 25, 1917. Mie pro-I posed plans and method of disposal of the sewage, all of which met with his approval Ifotlbe 6t Intehtloh tdr the construction of the lateral BCwdr system north of the Ofdbh river was duly publiithed and Jurisdiction pained during ih' year 1917. If thes additional bond.i arr voted j 'fliere will he available for the con- i jfctrucliori of this sewer extension not Iprp than J650.000, as 325,000 in bonds ,iras voted In 1919 nrt . |