Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending .. . Brenton street. With the sewers built which are provided for in Estimate No. 2, every streetin the City with the exception of those on the neck and those in section one,would have an easily accessible main into which its drainage could be VII and VIII shoM by full black lines, sewers built which would be in-cluded in the system, while the dotted lines show the proposed connections. Inall probability very many of these proposed connections will not be needed for anumber of years; the
Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending .. . Brenton street. With the sewers built which are provided for in Estimate No. 2, every streetin the City with the exception of those on the neck and those in section one,would have an easily accessible main into which its drainage could be VII and VIII shoM by full black lines, sewers built which would be in-cluded in the system, while the dotted lines show the proposed connections. Inall probability very many of these proposed connections will not be needed for anumber of years; they are indicated on the maps to show the possibilities ofthe plan. On the other hand, there are quite a large number of streets urgentlyin need of new sewers. There are 12 3-10 miles of pipe sewers which have been built in the past fewyears, that can be incorporated in this plan ; they have been built with allot-ments from the annual appropriations for iStreets and Highways, and thismethod of paying for latteral sewers in streets as they are built upon, or those PL A T£ K// X^7a<^^^ 1885.] secretarys report. 85 in which it is necessary to replace old sewers of improper construction, is a goodone; but I think, after the experience of the difficulties encountered in the High-way Department in 1884, from using so large a portion of the annual appropria-tion, for building the main outlet sewer, that it would be inexpedient to attemptto build the sewers estimated for in this report, in that way, and I would there-fore earnestly recommend that provision be made from other sources, and inamounts large enough to build at least one third of the whole work at a time. The essential thing now is to build the trunk sewer in Thames street, thesettling tank at the harbor line, and to lay the submerged pipe across the the necessary funds provided, the Thames street sewer might be built asfar as Lee avenue, and the tank and pipe completed, within the year, leaving theexten
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