Brookside Sewer

Transcribed article: The photograph, looking north, shows where the present Brookside Boulevard sewer, which was started in September, 1937, and completed in January, 1938, ends at Fifty-fifth Street. A declaration of necessity for extending the sewer by inclosing the brook from Fifty-fifth to Fifty-ninth street in reinforced concrete pipe of 8-foot diameter has been issued by N. W. Hyland, assistant director of public works. A hearing will be held on it at his office at 2 o'clock February 24. The cost of sewer extension has been estimated at $133,000, which would be paid in four annual installments by owners of property in the benefit district shown by the accompanying map. The cost would be about 3/4 cent a square foot to property owners in the district. The first section of the sewer, from Fifty-first to Fifty-fifth street, was a concrete double-box sewer, each box being 7 1/2 by 8 feet in size. It was built at a cost of $132,000, averaging 1/2 cent a square foot to property owners in the benefit district - a much larger one than the benefit district for the proposed south section of the sewer. The property in the benefit district for the south extension was included in the large benefit district for the first section of the sewer. Many of the property owners still are paying their assessments for the first section. Officials explained that the property owners in the benefit district for the south extension also had to pay for the sewer from Fifty-first to Fifty-fifth because their property used that part of the sewer. Kansas City Times, February 17, 1939.