A City Sweet and Clean! The Brooklyn Sewerage

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A CITY SWEET AND CLEAN! THE BROOKLYN SEWERAGE.

Next to our noble Water Works, and naturally arising out of the existence of them, depending indeed upon them, comes a large and perfect system of Sewerage for Brooklyn. To have interior drains through every street, avenue, and lane, carrying off all impurities—keeping all the houses and yards free from offensive matter—keeping, indeed, the whole city sweet and clean—truly there is something cheerful in the vista thus opened to our great city.

Our readers may not be aware that this subject of Sewerage for Brooklyn is likely to take a practical shape before long. The Board of Water Commissioners have it devolved upon them, by legislative act, to procure plans for a general system, for the whole city, to be carried out in detail, in future. We believe they are acting in the matter, or beginning to act.

So much requires to be taken into account, and so great caution and far-sightedness are necessary—such a high grade of scientific knowledge, also—that we suppose it will be some time before definite plans of Sewerage are fixed upon. What we write this brief notice for, is just to call public attention to the subject, by the way of a reminder. We would also let the Commissioners see that attention is directed toward them.

We see that the Mayors of Brooklyn, ¹ New York,² and Jersey City,³ have presented a petition to Congress, asking action on the part of the Federal government, toward forming wharves along the water lots—with reference, among other things, to the effect upon the drainage and sanitary condition of those cities.

We shall recur to this subject of drainage more at length, at an early day.

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