3d Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

No. 1298

SANITARY AND

STORM WATER SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS

IN THE

CITY OF HOT SPRINGS
ARKANSAS

WITH PLANS AND ESTIMATES FOR EXTENSION

Submitted by the Secretary of the Interior

JANUARY 22, 1913.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
and ordered to be printed with illustrations

WASHINGTON

SANITARY AND STORM WATER SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, CITY OF HOT SPRINGS, ARK.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, January 20, 1913.

SIR: In the sundry civil act approved August 24, 1912, provision was made for preliminary survey of the sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, Ark., in the following terms:

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, at the earliest practicable date, to make a survey of the sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, abutting the Hot Springs Reservation, Ark., and to prepare plans and estimate of the cost of increasing the present storm drainage system as well as the present sanitary sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, the report of survey, including estimate of cost of the work, to be submitted to Congress as soon as practicable after the 1st day of December, 1912, The expenses incurred hereunder shall not exceed $10,000; one-half of such expenses shall be paid out of the revenues derived from privileges and otherwise on the Hot Springs Reservation, and the other half shall be paid by the city of Hot Springs, Ark.

By arrangement between the department and the United States. Geological Survey this work was undertaken by Mr. Sledge Tatum, geographer in charge of the Rocky Mountain division of that bureau, and he has submitted his report, which, with accompanying report of J. W. Barnett, consulting engineer, and exhibits, is herewith transmitted for your consideration.

It will be seen therefrom that an estimate is submitted in the sum of $26,595 for labor and material in perfecting a sanitary sewer system in Hot Springs, and for conducting an experimental sewer purification plant; together with alternative propositions for providing purification plants in the sum of $70,000 and $20,000, respectively, dependent upon the system adopted as a result of the experience obtained in experimental plant. Estimate is also submitted in the sum of $327,540 for drainage system to care for storm waters from the mountains on the Hot Springs Reservation, which amount includes $89,700 for extending the Hot Springs Creek Arch from its present terminus on Church Street, in the city of Hot Springs, to South Water Street, approximately the city limits. The installation of the sanitary sewer system, however, it is stated, will obviate the necessity for continuing the Hot Springs Creek Arch, with its present terminus at Church Street, because the impurities which are now flowing into the creek under the arch will be cared for by the sanitary sewer system.

To carry into effect the recommendations embodied in the report will require appropriations by Congress as follows:

For labor and material for perfecting a sanitary sewer system in the city of Hot Springs, the installation and operation of an experimental purification plant, and providing purification tanks in connection with such system, $96,595.