CITY OF ALBANY ANNUAL REPORT eae CITY ENGINEER * For the Year Ending November 30, 1930 @ ALBANY ‘THE ARGUS CO., PRINTERS 1931CITY OF ALBANY ANNUAL REPORT CITY ENGINEER For the Year Ending November 30, 1930 ALBANY THE ARGUS CO., PRINTERS 19316 Report oF THE Arch street stormwater relief sewer... tr southwest corner .... Clinton avenue, repaving, Robin stre Beaver and Grand streets, removal of a portion of to Manning inanilceitbs o\ deocsaree poe alia Sm 7 Colonie strect, improvement, Northern boule to Penssylvania avenue... ...0ee0cccceees ee Fairview avenue, improvement, South Main ave- nue—West Lawrence street and Oakwood street .... Fire Drill Tower, sul Grand View terrace, improvement, Second avenue northerly about 589 feet... Hackett bouley street to structure and pavement... . rd, improvement, east of Cardinal avenue—west of South Main avenue... Hackett Park wadin pool....., oe Halsdorf street, sewers under each walk, to New Scotland avenue. . Greenway High street, repaving, Hudson avenue avenue... ... to Madison Highland avenue, paving and repaving, New land avenue to Hackett boulevard. . Kenosha street, improvement, § west of Philbrick street. . Lincoln P; ‘0 street to , road reconstruction, Morton avenue Lincoln Park s MeCarty avenue, improvement, Sonthe to Bertha street. . Manning boulevard, Terminal street . mming pool... rn boulevard curbing, street to Manning boulevard, Sewer, Judson street trunk Sewer to Wilkins ayenne Montgomery. sty shin tr th mery street, repaying, Columbia street. t ig a street to _Livingston avenue New Scotland avenue, removg 7 : 4 oval of east of Allen strect, m2 eee Mae. thern boulevard, widening, Colonie Manning boulevard .. street to $119,556 3445 16,535 8,567 14,170 ¢ 50,406 $,666 119 77,803 10,536 16,712 53,820 8,034 7,70! 2,943 50 00 55 pAU OF ENGINEERING 7 Ontario strect, repaving, Central avenne to Living ton avenue Park street, repaving, State street to Laneaster 50 50 BUNEGE hy 5 5 vate Slingerland street, culvert aeros and street. Thirteenth Ward trunk sewer (sanitary) within limits of Krumkill and west 00 12,055 62 limit of Beaver creck sewe Townsend Park, removal of a portion........0+ 5. Warren Quail street to Ontario strect ...... strect, improvement, 13,761 26 .. $905,781 7 ROCA? . Giller es There were a few outstanding projects among the many con- tracts which will permit of a general description and might add In several cases, pietures nd when to any interest that this report po of the improvements were taken before beginning wor the job was completed. Swrartxe axp Waptye Poors During the of a large swimming pool in an unused portion of Lincoln Parl This work was projected because the old Rocky Ledge pool wa » Beaver ereek trunk sewer. It arly spring a contract was let for the construction in a ravine direetly over the had been determined that such a use of this ravine was dangerous and it had been decided to abandon the site and construct a new swimming place in a safer spot. ‘The new pool is horse shoe in shape, being about three hundred fect across in one direction and three hundred ten feet in the other. It is built of reinforeed concrete slabs six inches in thickness, laid An elabo ast twelve inches of rolled gravel. ke care of the leakage from upon at lc aite system of underdrains was laid in order to 's the fill is much more than twelve inches, ut a settl the pool. In some plac but it was made entirely of ¢ During the construction of the pool, ver vel fill.” avel to prevent too gr ment. occurred and they aided in settling the grRerorr or rire, The pool ranges in depth from zero at the edge, to eight feet at the center, where the diving platform is located. ‘The diving plat- form is ten feet high above the bottom of the pool, ten feet wide and twelve feet in length. Two diving boards have heen fastened to this platform. ‘The present system of furnishing water ig s what as follows. The water main extends from Swan. street, Vitave on ‘ing Tes, ‘ ew or Stre Berore Coxsrrec TION ARTED N aw Py y W Poou ix Forearounn © Beneav or Exersnentxe 9 opposite the pool and the water flows into the pool by means of ions. A by-pass has also been the chlorinating system. This will twelve inlets, situated in var Dus § constructed, which will se uted water to be fed to the permit a constant stream of chlovi A of surface material has been constructed entirely around the pool. foot, directly to pool during all honrs of the d um gutter for the removal This gutter is drained at intervals of every fifty the sewer. All pipe lines situated under the pool with the exeep- felt that this was a an any other, as the danger of break- Lin are cast iron. It was n th rather remote. ‘The idea which governed the tion of the underd better type of construct ing such pipe wi selection of materials for the construction of the pool was to make it as permanent as possible. If, in the future, it is desired to vecireulate and filter the water in the pool, it can be accomplished by pieki unused inlets which extend from the surface of the conerete to a g up several at present point outside the perimeter of the pool. Tt will then only be nec sary to extend a pipe line entirely around the pool and lead it to the pumping and other equipment, which ean be installed in the cellar of the new bath house. Provision has been made in the new bath house, adjacent to the pool, for the installation of filters and necessary pumps when desired. ‘The pool is surrounded by a sidewalk and a gutter for its entire distance and back of this gutter is a sand beach fifteen feet in width. At the top of the bank which extends around most of the < foot wire fence with barbed wire on the top, pool, there i which will effectively prevent any misuse of the pool during the se s closed. ‘The only access to the pool at any time will be by means of the bath house and by two gates situatcd at the north and south sides of the bath house. on whe The pool was not put into use this season, although it was con- structed early enough for the purpose, because the bath house was not ready and it was felt that the bathing could not be controlled without means of bath houses. ‘The pool will contain about a million, seven hundred fifty thousand (1,750,000) gallons of water, nce would indicate that it is one of the ion of the country. The contract and its general appear finest pools of its kind in this scprice Albany, N. Y. During the past pool in Hackett P in connection wi several years 20. dred forty feet lon; depth of water wi gene fore in the city. in the north sectic Tt does seem, lu to all of our wadi to chlorinate the built without some chlorinating reason why the same arguments for the nec water in swimming pools, should not be wading pools. I would be an aid chlorinating equip the city. Lixcotx Park Barir I There was no doubt ths - swimming pool in I construct a bath h hou hould have athletic field is alsc account that rathe bit of ingenuity uy design has by lower floor can be skaters who will be ately cast of the ha This building will fill combined with the $53,820.5 wen worked out now, Jn other words while the R ORT OF THE 5 and the contractor was I ummer, the city also constructed a small wa ar’ This was th a small play: This pool is sixty-eight feet wide and one in the north end of the city round which was ¢ and is twenty-four inche Il be fifte deep. The minin n inches. It is constructed along Tt was received with gr ut favor by the px on of the city. jowever, that some improvement should be 1 ing pool in that some means should be prov water in th pools. No swimmir pool is yparatus and T know 0 ssity of chlorina applied to the water use think it would be a step in advance and to the h ment at cach one of the wading pools throug ouSE, dncoln Park, house, it would be ucee: Tt was felt in addition that this an all y r vound use, as the Lincoln 1 » used during most of the year. It was on er a problem w S presented, which ealled pon the part of the T believe tl which will permit this dual th architect summer use will be for bathin onverted in using the Lincoln Par th house, ating rink, fll'a long felt want in Lincoln Parks Swimming pool in the summer and the sk# tablis! the winter into public use immedi- tevenson, of ding built hed umn mum » the al lines of wading pools which have been constructed hereto- rople nade ided now f no iting ed in also Ith of the community, to install hout at with the construction of a fine coneret¢ ary, also, to bath Park this pat @ u e entire for and, uting & Bureau or Exeryenerxa re rink in the winter, will provide the facilities which are alw of this nature. I am quite sure that the 1 with the completed structure and al of credit upon the city, as well as the constructor and the architect. Thomas L. Gleason of Albany, N. Y., is the architect, and the Feeney & Suicolian Building Com- pany are the contractors. for a par publie will be greatly pl that it will reflect a great d Arcu Srreer Sewer. Tn many of my past reports, but more particularly in my 1929 report, I urged the building of a relief sewer along the old Beaver creck sewer extending under Arch street. I have gone into rather great detail in many of my annual reports, regarding the con- ocenrred ditions which existed and the damage which always ha whenever the Arch strect sewer flowed under pressure, due to excessive rain storms, This was nothing new, because the con- ditions which followed excessive rain storms have been endured a thing to be for a long period. ‘The overflow of this sewe feared for by the people in this particular area, whenever the rain fall became a little greater than normal. No attempt had ever been made to overcome the condition and the people had begun to believe that there was apparently no remedy. ‘This office, between construction periods had been endeavoring to solve the ever pressing problem, but it was not until last winter that the s undivided attention to the proposition wa "en Bureau was able to give Many theories for solution had been advanced ant finally, it was decided that the cheapest and best solution was to tap the sewer it was exhibiting its worst effects. Fyrom inve at a point where ation and inquiry it was believed that if this sewer could be tapped it or near South Pearl strect and conducted by a parallel line to the river, perhaps future trouble would be overeome. In any event, if the tappin: overcome the difficulty, nothing would be los of the old Arch street sewer at this point did not It would simply ef sewer should be extended farther west, to mean that the perhaps Grand strect and Warren, ‘This last point would have been selected in the first place, except that the sewer is anywhere from thirty to forty feet below the level of the street, near Grand street.