. Public works . d St. Maiinolia Park, Tex On Nov. 28 elec-tion will be held for voting on bond is-sue of $150,000 for street improvementsand ■^\ater works. Richmond, Va.—Council Committee onStreets has selected 14th St. as approachto Mayo Bridge and directed City Engi-neer to make report on plans to widenthorouglifare. Suffolk, Va.—Resolution has beenadopted advising State Com-mission that funds apportioned to thiscounts for permanent improvement ofroads for year 1915 will be taken andused in Windsor district and in Newportdistrict. COXTR-VCTS -VWARDED. Gailsden, Ala.—Contract has be
. Public works . d St. Maiinolia Park, Tex On Nov. 28 elec-tion will be held for voting on bond is-sue of $150,000 for street improvementsand ■^\ater works. Richmond, Va.—Council Committee onStreets has selected 14th St. as approachto Mayo Bridge and directed City Engi-neer to make report on plans to widenthorouglifare. Suffolk, Va.—Resolution has beenadopted advising State Com-mission that funds apportioned to thiscounts for permanent improvement ofroads for year 1915 will be taken andused in Windsor district and in Newportdistrict. COXTR-VCTS -VWARDED. Gailsden, Ala.—Contract has beenawarded for curb and gutter on WalnutSt. to C. O. Duncan for 57 cts. a sq. yd. St. Paul, Minn—For grading Went-worth St. to Martin Eberhard at $725, andfor errading Benz Ave. to Christ Johnsonat $646. Also for grading Clarence St. toThornton Bros, at $3,887. Dormont, Pa.—For 900 vds. grading toRichardson & Carter at 42 cts. per yd. 71^ Municipal Journal Volume XXXVII NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, • XE CORNElt UF THE FIETEli AKEA. ATTLEBOROS SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL Sand Filters of Natural Soil Reached by Five Miles of Outfall Sewer—Outfall Carried Above Ground at Two Points—Some Details of the Filter Construction. Attleboro, Mass., a town of about 10,000 population,has for years had a system of combined sewers abouttwo miles long emptying directly into Ten Mile many years there was continual agitation for a and several plans were made, all of which in-cluded a pumping plant and sedimentation basins atvarious levels, and were rejected. But in the spring of 1909 the town was authorizedto spend $500,000 for sewers and sewage disposal, andJ. J. Van Valkenburgh was retained as engineer. Hesubmitted plans which were followed in a system whichhas now been in operation about a year. The sewage disposal system is of the intermittentfiltration type so common in Massachusetts, with twenty-six filter beds of natural sandy soil. An excellent loca
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