New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 20

ey 20 PERMANENT PAVING POLICY PUT FORTH City Engincer Recommends Deli- nite A'zli?rjjil}t}nqgl Report e . s e e e e = I*lu'-‘h Main Wim: Myrtle strest, | !\m to Grove, Houth High street, | WWest Maln to Court; Digeiow street, | Park to Chestrut W Main strect, | 1 Square 1o Berlin lina Lingineer’ port [ f the city engineer following work has been | by the department during lingg March 81, To relleve | the detail work | with the carrying out| ¢ B Cadwell was uperintendent, prepared for re- Andrews street the Willow Brook, and construction carried out by the All the old broken slab removed and a heavier slab, r ed with st Leams, construct- t a cost of §3,317.20, A concrete of the type used on Mon-| was built to carry Corbin Tirook, omitting The cose of this| to Hou vankil The report of yui “The 1 o varts the y the eity engincer ot in eonnection of work ordes mada general New plans onstruct ur the were oIty the where the rmanent A systematic plan will conslstently extend paving s recommended in the annual report by the elty engincer, J. b, Wi fams, presented to the board of publie works lust night, ' gests the neced of method for and 1 ons the demand The following streets wer r t helng in o At Streets in Bad Shape Commerclal Main to Elm; Court s Main to South High;| Park street, Main o nley; Corbin Place, Church to Che Chestnut | ge over city's forces Wi inf satisfactory ed orders| gy hridge cet roe street venue over Willow concrete railing. was $1,081 soIne ing ¢ for mac for this | | Bridge Repairs | “Examination of the concrete slab| bridge at Rentschler street showed | the slab to be cracked. A center pier wall was built the entire length at a | cost of $670.92, to prevent a failure similar to the Old Andrews Bridge. “At the end of the year the plank- ing of the West n street bridge was again in bad shape, and the rail- road company will soon replace both the under and tip planking. The plank | bridges and railings have been kept | in repair, but several are in need of | {|| veplacing with premanent structures. | Grading Work | “Extensive grading was undertaken | to carry out the plan to furnish em- | ployment to surplus labor. The lab- | orers were secured by requisition on 'the municipal employment office, and |a large portion of each gang was changed weekly. On many of the streets, worked, the grades had been established for many years, but no working had heen done. All roadways were grades to sub-grades, so that whenever the street is macadamized it will not be necessary to remove| any of the broken stone surfacing | placed to furnish a firm-traveled wa Grading was done on 36 streets, to-| talling 40,800 lineal feet or 7.7 miles, | completing nearly all the streets| where the work could be economical- | ly done with hand labor. Macadam Work “To furnish traveled ways on the streets graded, efforts were made to use all materials available at the lowest cost. The base course on sev- eral streets composed of ‘hot mill' slab from the Stanley Works {rolling mill, on others the surplus rock from near trenches, and on others quarry chip stone. This sur- facing was done on 27 streets, mostly | part width, having a total length of| | 24,299 feet, or, 4.6 miles. | en inch macadam for fullf width was laid on five street. On Aus- tin, High and Ii{nwood streets, con- ||| crete gutters were constructed, the | majority of the curbs being in place since, 1914, as the original orders for macadam had been approved by the| common council at that time. Cobble | gutters were constructed on Broad | street to complete the work from Sil- | ver street, to Burritt street. Andrews| street was macadamized from Green- | wood street to the Angle near Ken-| sington street. New Work Done “The only new work done was the the semi-permanent Straw Hats $1.75 to $4.00 ROSEBEN HAT SHOP 388 Main St. - ) | completion of was | when pavement on Church street at the Unlon Works, The old macadain was shaped by the city forces, and 656,41 square yards of 3 inch asphalt sur- face was placed by the Edward Balf (o, of Hartford, A four foot con crete mixer was purchased and used to mix cold pateh materials for ma- cadam streets, Several bhrands of binder w tried out during the sea- son. Amiesite was used on some streets, particularly on the semi-pers manent pavements and at intersec- tlons, The spring repairs to the pave- ments were made with hot asphalt furnished by Robinson & Powers of Meriden, and placed by city forces. Lights Placed The following lights were in place at the end of the year, March 31: 96 new arcs at $756 per arc per year; 382 two hundred and fifty candle power incandescent lamps at $28.76 per lamp per year; 885 eighty candle power incandescent lamps at $17.11 per lamp per year; 7 clusters on Central Park at §52 per cluster, The increase consists of three 250 candle power lights and 34 eighty candle power lights, and one cluster replaced. An- other cluster will soon be added to complete the layout, the former clus- ter having been broken several years ago. Care Of Parks “The small parks were taken care by the board until October 22 they were transferred to board of park commissioners. spraying of the elm trees was done, and no damage from beetles w oevi- dent. A large number of trees were removed by grading, and for the con- struction of walks and buildings; also many poplar trees were taken out be- cause of damage to sewers and walks, by their roots. Arrangements should be made to set a quantity of maples the coming season. “The park street lateral installa- tion was completed, except at Stanley street, where the companies were re- building the pole line. Seven man- holes were enlarged on Main, Church and Commercial streets and one new manhole built on Church street. Ad- ditional laterals were put in for trunk line connections at Rlack Rock bridge and Elm street crossing, the pole line from the Corbin avenue sta- tion to Black Rock bridge having Leen completed. Studies have been prepared for enlarging the system on Court street and extending it to South High street, for a connection through Bigeiow street, from Park street to Chestnut street, for a connection through Commercial street, from Main to Elm streets and for a sub- way on Lexington street, so that a pole line would he unnecessary when the companies remove from their back yard location. Sewer Construction “Extensive construction was car- ried on by city forces to furnish em- ployment. The total increase for the year was approximately 51 miles. Rights of way were secured for the east side trunk sewer inside the city limits by awards estimated by the board of compensation and assess- ment. Nearly all the layout followed streets mapped out by the various real estate developments. Outside the city, rights of way were secured by negotiations of the board of public works. Pipe was purchased from the City Coal and Wood Co.,, on quota- tions submitted by seven concerns. Work was begun January 9, and at the end of the year 2,500 lineal feet of pipe had been laid. It is propos- ed to contract one section 1,240 feet of 22, the No NEW BRITAIN DAII HERALD, long, of which 765 feet will be a tun- nel in rock, Test borings at this p! were made by the Giles Drilling Co, of New York, after completion of their work for the hoard of water commissioners, Thirteen holes were put down with a total depth in earth of 218 feet, 7 inches, and in rock 142 feet 4 inehes, the cost being $1, 3 Trench Machinery. “Types of machinery for trench ex- cavation were investigated. After a special trench bucket was secured the machine showed it ability to save its cost on this work, and on March 256 it was voted to recommend the purchase of the machine at a cost of $9,270 and one-half cubic yard Page bucket at $720, Sewer Work. “Clonstruction work on the follow- ing sewers was completed, but cost accounts have not been submitted: Trighton street, from Allen street to Roxbury Road; Roxbury Road, from RBrighton street to Vincent avenue; Vincent avenue, from Roxbury Road to Derby street; Oak street, from Vin- cent avenue to Allen street; Derby street, from Vincent avenue to Allen street; Andrews strect to brook storm sewer. Construction work on a 6ys- tem in Allen street, from Oak street to Lawlor street, Lawlor street from Allen street to LaSalle street, and in LaSalle street from Lawlor street to Clark street, has been carried on and is near completion. Detail plans are being prepared for the second sec- tion of the east side trunk sewer from East street to Stanley street; (2) the third section of the same sewer, or collection system for Belvi- dere; (3) storm water system for the area east of the Berlin branch and south of Kelsey street; (4) an exten- sion of the Myrtle street sewer to Jerome street and northerly, and (5) the extension of the 36-inch concrete sewer to the disposal plant. “Due to the large amount of grad- ing and surfacing work during the year it was necessary to construct {an unusual number of catch basins. “The city map sheets covering the entire city were completed for the as- sessors and brought up to date by | transfers. A number of corrections ito parts where yater information showed the original work to be in- correct are being made and new de- velopments plotted on.” Water Dept. 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