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iftHf? SECTION B MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY.'oCTOBER aTTwa PAGES 1 to 8""
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Jacksonville's sewer Droiect will use the la&oon Ivne of disnosal svslem. in which sewaee flows into two lamp nnpn-air lamnns Natural rlinmical ai.iinn B'i'-1fc
place, breakinc down the sewaee and eventually burning it up. The action also is said to prevent anv odor from spreading. This photo shows part ot the laeoons 5&t ! 5
unaer construction on a lu-acre parcel oi iana locaiea just soum oi me jacKsonvine nignway on me casi siae oi ine city.
cksonville Sewer System
stallation Is Progressin
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JACKSONVILLE Construction of the city of Jacksonville's
sewer system is progressing rapidly.
Workmen, many of them valley residents, employed by
the R. A. Heintz company of Portland, got started on the
project July 20. Acocrding to official sources, the sewer sys- ,
tern is now about 70 per cent complete, while the 1 agoons, Cf tN
located on 10 acres of ground east of the city, are about 50
per cent done.
1 renches into which the sewer pipe is being laid in Jacksonville are dug by rigs such as this one. The house in the back
ground of this photo is one of the older homes in Jacksonville. It now is the residence of Councilman and Mrs. George Brewer.
The project Is scheduled for completion about the end ot
November. Jacksonville community leaders anticipate, that
completion of the sewer system will serve to spark further
development of the city and population growth.
The construction project Is costing the city a total of
$325,147.20. The city council was advised by its consulting
engineers that it could raise enough money to meet the cost
if 25 per cent of the front frontage assessments were paid
in cash by the end of the year.
To date, about 17 per cent of the assessments have been
paid. Residents were to have either paid their assessments
or have siened ud for Bancroft Bonding act financinff hv Oct
v" 3- Tne Bancroft system permits the property owner to pay off
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6 per cent interest.
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The first payment under this system Is due Dec. 15 of this foiy
year. That date is also the deadline for Davment of connec- Kif V
tion fees, which amount to $150 per connection. A $10 sewer js
inspection fee is also being charged each user of the system, at!.riifiStriw"i i
but $8 of it is refundable after the connection has been inspected.
Each section of sewer pipe fits snugly into the next. To seal the connection, however, workmen put a rubber ring around the
end of the section.
Afler the trench is dug, workmen lay the main sewer pipeline along the bottom of it. Here
workers inspect a line being installed along California st.
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In nnleiA)i avoid having to (lit! a new hole in the event of a malfunction in the pipeline, a
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Cnnstructinn workers t$rc are loweri.ig n section of pipe to
Afler the pi(e has been laid and inspected, next comes the Job of pulling all the rarlh hack into the trench. Workmen try to manhole Is constructed at every joint in Ihe mnr sr. U rn and also at various intervals along ihe be used at a joint In the' system where two lines come. to.
ira tho narth at miirklv a nnuihle in order not In mrnnvrnipr.ro rr.cirlr.nta anv mnrn than nrt.,ri. l.nA r'n..n..;t. rt..i r'...i i ..r .. . . i. . . r .i. .
Kplare the earth as quickly as possible in order not In inconvenipnre resident) any more than necessary
lines. Councilman Paul Godward looks over one ol ihem.
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(S)ge(her. Later a manhole will be constructed on top of the joint.
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