. Water & sewage works . was done with clean ashes,earth and gravel, the very best fill to behad, strictly in accordance with the speci-fications. The settlement of the pavingand curbing and the finished street ontop of this fill was due to the fact thatseveral hundred thousand yards of fillingwere placed in one year, without givingit the usual time for settling. The mayorordered the paving and curbing to bedone on this green fill, which icas about20 feet deep, in the same year. Underordinary circumstances the fill wouldhave been allowed to lie from at least sixynonths to a year for settlement
. Water & sewage works . was done with clean ashes,earth and gravel, the very best fill to behad, strictly in accordance with the speci-fications. The settlement of the pavingand curbing and the finished street ontop of this fill was due to the fact thatseveral hundred thousand yards of fillingwere placed in one year, without givingit the usual time for settling. The mayorordered the paving and curbing to bedone on this green fill, which icas about20 feet deep, in the same year. Underordinary circumstances the fill wouldhave been allowed to lie from at least sixynonths to a year for settlement beforethe paving was done. It was not so Inthis case, as the government officials atthe navy yard were threatening to stopimprovements unless the city gave thema finished street leading from the navyyard gate up to the city, and the mayorordered the work done at once to satisfythe government officials, and said he waswilling that the city be responsible for -J^ovcmber. PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD EMBANKMENTS 425. settlement under the circumstances, andadded that the city would not be a partyto stopping improvements at the navyyard. This affords text for a flood of seriousthought on another phase of the earth•settlement problem. The Philadelphiacase differs from thousands of caseswhich occur nearly every day in nearlyall cities only in the magnitude, involv-ing construction costing three-quarters ofa million dollars; a fill 20 feet deep; sev-eral hundred thousand yards of embank-ment and the many miles of curb androadway surface. It is proper to say that the presenthighway bureau chief was not in any wayconnected with the Philadelphia publicworks department at the time this workwas done. It should be specifically notedthat, according to the report quotedabove, the engineer says the fill wasmade with improper material, householdashes, while the contractor says soundmaterial was used, the very best to behad, strictly in accordance with thespecifications, and undertakes t
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