Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council ..., 第 9 期 |
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第 124 頁 - ... shore, at the end of Fullerton avenue, would create a nuisance on the Lake Shore Drive. " There can be no doubt that the water of the lake shore would sometimes be discolored when it might otherwise be clear; but lake water enough introduced into the North Branch to render it inoffensive to the smell, and then discharged through the proposed canal into the lake, would be equally inoffensive. " Let what may be done, such a city as this cannot get rid of all its...
第 17 頁 - ... Michigan Canal, as well as for sometime before, the Fullerton avenue conduit was proposed as early as 1862 in its present form, and a canal between the lake and the North Branch, to effect the same purpose, was [suggested in In their Ninth Annual Report the Board of Public Works, after saying (p. 17) "but one of the many schemes proposed seems to them to promise to be effectual and worthy of adoption, that is, the construction of a canal, opened or covered, between the lake and the North Branch,...
第 123 頁 - ... current, leaving out of view the objection that it would be impossible to turn that current from its natural course into the main river, the number of such wells, judging from the most successful one yet bored in this city — that of the Union Stock Yard Co. — would have to be 405, that is, if 24,000 cubic feet per minute should be required. All experience thus far, in other cities and countries, where many artesian wells have been bored, goes to show that their enlargement, either in size...
第 121 頁 - ... feet, could be made to discharge 24,000 cubic feet per minute, or sufficient to change all the water in the North Branch and main river every thirty-six hours. The estimated cost of the canal is $480,000, including machinery.
第 119 頁 - CM the numerous plans proposed for cleansing the North Branch, four classes may be mentioned, viz: " ist. Intercepting sewers. 2nd. Canals between the river and the lake. 3rd. Reservoirs high up the river. 4th. Artesian wells. "By intercepting sewers, it is proposed to prevent the drainage of the city from being discharged into the river, and thus avoid polluting it. Such sewers should be made near to and parallel with the river. They would necessarily be lower than the lake, and incline towards...
第 7 頁 - Property holders willing to advance the money to cover the extension of water service pipes and mains into an area where not enough revenue could be generated from water rates could have the water system extended to their property. The general feeling was that, like extension of...
第 119 頁 - ... in the plan adopted ; but, for reasons it would be useless to discuss here, that portion of the plan has never been carried out. It was hoped that by arranging the sewerage system so as to have but very little filth discharged into the North Branch, it might be many years before it would be necessary...
第 73 頁 - Many very generous donations of rare animals have been made to the city, not only by donors whose homes are within the city, but from those who reside at places quite remote from it.
第 73 頁 - Much was done in seeding down a large share of the ground to grass, in the planting of large elm and other trees...