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cut off at its east by a tide gate and filling in at the Manhattan Beach 

 railroad trestle, and on its west at the Old Shell Road, by filling in 

 the creek under said road, and raising the road at some low points 

 to form a dike, all of which work can be done without recourse to the 

 general government, being within closed constructions over said creek. 

 The existing streams as shown and explained will be compelled to 

 become drainage ditches by the action of the tide gate, and will carry 

 the water of the section off and empty same at low tide. Small ditches 

 from pools may later be necessary to take their waters to the drain 

 creeks. 



Map herewith of even date. 



HENRY CLAY WEEKS, 



Sanitary Engineer and Inspector. 

 New York, September 30, 1903. 



Borough of Brooklyn, New York, October 19, 1903. 

 To the Sanitary Superintendent: 



Sir — I forward herewith a complaint and report of Henry Clay 

 Weeks, sanitary engineer and inspector, with reference to that part of 

 Coney Island Creek section between the bridge of the Old Shell Road 

 on the west and the trestle of the Long Island Railroad (Manhattan 

 Beach Branch) on the east, and being all the territory now watered 

 by said creek and its tributaries between said points. 



On October i6th, in company with yourself and Mr. Weeks, I made 

 a personal examination of the locality referred to in the report of Mr. 

 Weeks. In my opinion the protection of the public health requires the 

 drainage of the lands in question, and I would recommend that the 

 creek be cut off on the east end by a tide gate and filling in at the Man- 

 hattan Beach trestle, and that the creek be closed by filling it in on the 

 west under the Old Shell Road, and that this road be raised at such 

 points as is necessary so as to form a dike, and that after the tide gate 

 and dike are constructed, such ditches be dug as may be necessary to 

 drain off whatever stagnant water may remain. Respectfully, 



Joseph H. Raymond, M. D., 

 Assistant Sanitary Superintendent. 



SANITARY BUREAU. 



New York, October 21, 1903. 



Respectfully forwarded. In company with Henry Clay Weeks, 

 Sanitary Engineer, and the Assistant Sanitary Superintendent of the 

 Borough of BrookljTi, on the i6th of October, I inspected the premises 

 in the Borough of Brooklyn bounded by Old Shell Road on the west, 

 the Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad Company 

 on the east, the Neck Road on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean beach 

 on the south. 



This consists of meadovv- and marsh land which is saturated by the 

 surface water and the tide water from the Coney Island Creek and its 



