THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
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MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916
VOLUME T.
NUMBER m.
CITY MAY SPEND $32,000 ON SEWERAGE
ORDINANCE READ AUTHORIZING
IMPROVEMENT OF SEWERAGE
DISPOSAL WORKS
Present System Found Inadequate
For City's Growing Population—
To Improve Drainage
The city council will spend $32,000 improving the sewerage disposal system of Moscow if an ordinance drafted to cover the proposed improvement passes its third reading at the regular meeting Monday night,
ance successfully passed first and second reading at an adjourned meeting last night with five of the six councilmen present.
The councilmen give as reasons justifying the improvement the fact that the increase of users of the sewer system of the city has outgrown present capacity, and the facts that the system at present is obsolete and inadequate to serve for even a small population. At present, because of its inadequacy, noxious gases are formed.
One of the principal reasons advanced in the ordinance is that the city has been enjoined from present system because it creates a nuisance on account of its defective use.
The improvement means practically a rebuilding of the entire sewerage system of the city, and should the ordinance be passed, work will probably be begun at the earliest time possible.
To Improve Drainage
Acting on a complaint from the state health office forwarded following a visit  It is of inspection to this city by A. H. 