![]() An investigatory report of the period explained why: ‘The Council and its officers, it seems, did not know that lumber would be required in making the excavation. This project was supposed to cost $150,000 - an enormous sum for that period. That point happened to be a rather flat flood plain which rapidly became, in the words of City Engineer John Graham, ‘an elongated cesspool emitting disagreeable and pestilential odors along its entire line for a distance of nearly a mile.’ Responding to this, city officials built yet another set of trunk line sewers serving the growing city in the 1880s. Fearing lawsuits by property owners outside town, the city stopped the project after it crossed the Ohio Canal near the breweries and let it empty into the river at that point. Local historian, Ed Lentz, author of the published book As It Were and freelance writer for This Week Newspaper summed up the decade's sewer work: “The original idea had been to build a sewer which picked up the 2 contents of most of the downtown sewers and run it parallel to the Scioto until it emptied into the river well below town. Water service was supplying approximately 2.2 million gallons per day (MGD) with the majority of this water routed back to the receiving streams through approximately 23.5 miles of public sewers and open ditches. After the discovery, 150 barrels of decayed, dried toilet waste were dug up and removed, the sewers were finally hooked up, and the illnesses disappeared. The effects on workers and visitors to the building had been a problem dating back to 1861 when the building opened. The “waterworks” consists just of a station pumping directly to the water mains, with the water supplied from a 20” diameter well and a brick infiltration gallery, both located on the east bank of the Olentangy River just upstream from its confluence with the Scioto River.ġ880 The long-feared mystery illness at the Ohio Statehouse known as “Statehouse Malaria” (or “Miasma”) was finally found to be caused by a contractor having connected the building’s “water closets” to the ventilating flues instead of the public sewers. ![]() ![]() A total of 6.77 miles of sewers are conveying waste to the waterways.ġ872 Columbus places its first “waterworks” in service and begins laying both water and sewer lines. Population is approximately 18,000.ġ852 A Spring Street area creek is enclosed in a covered sewer however, by 1855 it is leaking badly.ġ870 The population of Columbus approaches 31,000. Back yard “necessary houses” are still common.ġ848-50 Broad Street sewer is financed and construction begins. With no form of wastewater treatment, it was discharged directly into the Scioto River. ![]() Historical Milestones for Wastewater Treatment in Columbusġ812 Columbus is founded near the confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto Rivers.ġ814 Columbus is established as the state capital of Ohio.ġ834 Columbus is incorporated as a city with a population of 3,500 people.ġ841 First sewer in Columbus is constructed. ![]()
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