1900. Sept. 26. Western Union Telegraph Co. Brandow Printing Co.... Hudson River Telephone Co.. TUBERCULOSIS Salary of tuberculosis commissioners and expenses incurred in employment of veterinarians for the testing and destruction of cattle affected with tuberculosis from August 23, 1899, to January 23, 1900 ... $3.00 154 59 15 85 $4,080 67 $3,268 19 MASSENA, N. Y. Separate sewer system Plans providing for a separate system of sewers were approved by this Board February 14, 1900. Both the Raquette and Grasse rivers flow through the village in an almost due easterly direction, and so as to have almost half the village area between them. The sewage of the northerly half of the village will be discharged by gravity into the Grasse river, and that of the southerly half by the same means into the Raquette river. Provision has been made for a chemical precipitation disposal plant at each outlet whenever their installation may become necessary. The present population of the village is, approximately, 1800, but on account of the location here of the power plant of the St. Lawrence power company's canal-the largest power plant in the United States except that at Niagara-it has been deemed expedi ent to plan the sewer system for a population of 30,000. The engineer's report follows: REPORT MASSENA, N. Y., September 12, 1899 To the Honorable the Board of Health of the State of New York: Gentlemen-I herewith submit plans for a system of sewerage for the village of Massena for your approval. When the matter was first taken up with the village trustees, after carefully looking over the ground, it was decided to submit plans for a separate system as being the most advantageous and economical, the village having a natural drainage into the Grasse and Raquette rivers, which dispose of the surface water. |