The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-10

Besides these, we have similar reports
from Birmingham, England Breslan.
Germany; Edinburg, Scotland; Lean
ington, England; bledon, England :;
and Wrexham, Wales. None of these
report any odor in winter, and but two
of them report any in summer, and this
only when the sewage is allowed to
pond.
Your committee is in possession of a
vast amount of other information in re-
gard to
THE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE
by irrigation, but the nature of this re-
port will not permit of its insertion
here. Suffice it to say that everywhere
it has proved satisfactory. As to the
method of conducting the sewage from
the termination of the brick main, your
committee recommend that an embark
ment be made twelve fee: high at the
east and running thence westerly to
grade at the point of discharge, on and
in this embankment we recommend
conduit be made of soma material that
will permit of smooth and rapid tran
sit by gravity of the sewage through It's
whole passage. This involves lift of
the sewage by artificial power for the
twelve feet difference in elevation be-
tween the point of discharge of the
sewage at the termination of the brick
main and its reception into the conduit
on the embankment, which may be done
with a vacuum or centrifugal pump,
the short lift admitting of raising
large amount of sewage at compare
lively light expense.
As raoards the OhinntiaO
THAT SEWERAGE IS IMPRACTICABLE
here on account of a scarcity of water
for flushing, it must be remembered
that the system contemplated is what is
technically called the separate sys-
tenn" and that storm water is not ad-
mite with all the detritus of the streets,
ito the sewers, the light rainfall in
this locality making it unnecessary to
sewer storm water, so that the sewage
contains only the waste of sinks, laund
ries. bath tubs, etc., and the excreta of
the inhabitants. As the latter furnishes
the greatest amount Of solid matter to
tt e sewage, and assuming that each in
habitant uses fifty gallons of water per
diem, the waste of each cannot exceed
four pounds of solid matter tprobably
not half that) per diem, adding not
more than per cent. of solid to the
water, thus it may be seen that the
sewage itself is but polluted water, and
will readily flow in any smo 9th CEN
duit with proper gradient. But it is not
posed to erect system witho ut
flushing arrangements.
AUTOMATIC FLUSH TANKS
are recommended to be erected
at the upper end of each sewer
lateral, these to be so arranged
that small amount of water flowing
into recepticle, causes the rise of
float, which. when q given quantity of
water has flowed in, lifts, at regulated
intervals, valve and let's the accumu-
lated water flow in quantity through
| the laterels, securing them of any mat
ter that may have lodged in them. As
| TO where this small amount of extra
water is to come from for this purpose,
| it will be borne in mind that only for
about four months in the year have we
any scarcity of water even from the
present sources of supply, and in ordi-
nary seasons no lack at all for all the
district lying below the canal; but to
our present source of supply, there will
hereafter be added Canyon Creek, an
amount that will nearly equal, if not
exceed, the present flow of City Greek
THUS DOUBLING THE QUANTITY
now in use, exclusive of the
clnsl water. Besides this, it is known
b. this Council that arrangements have
been made by which the corporal on
will acquire another sixth of the JoJ dan
River, thus giving US one-third of that
stream. We think, from this. no hing
more need be said concerning water for
flushing.
This, in brief, is rough outline fftte
sewage plan your committee reCom-
mend.