Excerpt from Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Vol. 18: January to June, 1897 But in some systems there are provisions made and items of expense which benefit the general public and not individuals. For instance, storm water, when allowed to accumulate on the surface of streets, becomes a public nuisance; hence the public should pay for its removal. In many instances, cities assume the whole ex pense of this kind of work. We shall agree that public benefits should be paid by the pub lic. Just how much ...
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Excerpt from Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Vol. 18: January to June, 1897 But in some systems there are provisions made and items of expense which benefit the general public and not individuals. For instance, storm water, when allowed to accumulate on the surface of streets, becomes a public nuisance; hence the public should pay for its removal. In many instances, cities assume the whole ex pense of this kind of work. We shall agree that public benefits should be paid by the pub lic. Just how much public interest in the sewers should amount to in assessment should be settled by local conditions. Where the surface water drains and common sewers are combined in one system, then the general public benefit is much larger than in the separate system. The practice is becoming general to build sepa rate conduits for the conveyance of sewage, putting off until future years the construction of complete systems of storm water drains. In case the drainage of water from streets is thrown out and placed among the problems of the future, the general public interest in a sewerage system is cleanliness of soil, purity of air, and purity of water. There may be actual benefits accruing to the whole city from the introduction of a sewerage system beside that of im proved sanitation, such as its commercial value and the moral in fluence it has in maintaining and elevating the good name of the community. NO one can tell how much these benefits may amount to, but they are not to be overlooked. Taking everything into account, it is the custom to consider not less than one-fourth of the total benefit received as a public benefit, and legislation substantiates this View. It is also fair to agree that private benefits should be paid by individuals, since the fundamental object of assessments is equality. Some cities assess the whole cost upon the property in the district sewered; others assess a part of the cost; and still others pay the total cost out of the tax levy, thereby admitting no special benefits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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