Improvements at Fort Worth
Chairman Frammell, of the Fort Worth, Tex., City Board of Engineers and City Engineer Van Zuben, have filed a report to be presented to the city commission on the proposed construction of levees to protect water plants. The report says: “Referring to the matter of levees around the Holly and dual pumping plants, on which you requested estimates of cost to protect these plants against being flooded by the river, we beg to advise that after careful investigation of this subject we find that the Holly plant can be Safely protected by an earth levee, omitting the large concrete wall heretofore called for in other plans. Omitting this concrete wall greatly reduces the cost of the levee as compared with previous estimates. Making the levee all of earth as now proposed, except to riprap or pave the water side at the point of greatest restriction, and making same slightly higher than levee on opposite side of river to guarantee protection of plant and providing for the safety of both clear wells, will cost $16,500. In regard to the dual plant, it will be decidedly less expensive to remove that plant to higher ground where protection will not be required than to protect it at its present site.”
