The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-07
SEWERAGE IN OGDEN
Report of the special Committee
ON the Subject

ago, has received some consideration,
brit, perhaps, not the amount due q
mstter of so great importance. For on
perfect sewerage syst, m. onnected
wilma complete water system and pure
water, depends the health of our citi-
zens, and to great extent. the pros
perity of our beaut ful city. We, there
fore, present the Following for your con-
sheraton:
The first Thing to be considered is,
what can We do with our sewage? The
natural. easiest, most CONVENIENT and
cheapest place TO ir to be discharged,
is INTO the Weoer River. WhrJher We
have the right 20 discharge there. is
not for your committee to determine.
But if we can DO SO and it is done by
nearly all other towas where they have
q river convenient, we will have no
trouble in sewering our town. Neither
will the cost be great, compared with
other towns. Another Z advantage
we will have is, that we can build
what is known as adrain sewer. The
top of our main sewer will have to be
or should be below the bottom of the
deepest cellars. To get that d~pth we
will have to lower or drain the water
below the bottom of our present drain,
which would render 1t useless. So by
making a drain sewer into which we
can drain orr Suriaca water, which
would help to carry of our ewage,
we will do away with the trouble and
expense of making speclsI drains TO,
carry off the water. OF course, it would
greatly Increase tle amount Of liquid
matter running through the sewer, and
would not be advIsableif We have to
provide other means Of liking care of
the sewage. Ii We cant discharge it
into the river, there are other ways OF
disposing of it. One which originated
with the Rivers Pollution Commis-
sioners of England. and which was re-
ported on by the British ASSOCIATION
committee as doing good service, is the
following: Merthyr TydVil has pop
ulation OF 5000. out according 10 in
formation furnished the committee,
the excrete matter OF not more than
20 Q of this number is discharged into
the sewer, although thu slops and other
liquid refuse from further like num-
ber-20, 000-is stated to be admitted.
The area OF about twenty acres has
been converted into filter ped. or what
is AuOMu dS q ScnOI lOI tuC
practice of the system of downward fl
tration and sewer farming. This land
has been pipe-drained at depth of
about seven feet. The pipes are con-
ceatrs ted at the lowest corner where
the aff1uent water is discharged into an
op"u drain which leadsto the river. The
sewage, before entering the farm, is
screened through bed CT Stag, which
arrests all coa'se: matter, which is
readily disposed Of at remuuerative
prices as fertilizers. The land IS divided
into four plots or beds; the liquid sew
age Is turned on each bed
for six hours at time leaving eighteen
hours for rest and aeiation OF the soil.
The surface of the land is cultivated to
a depth of sixteen inches, and laid up
in ridges in order that the sewage can
run down the burrows, while the ridges
are planted with cabbage, beets, etc.
The system was reported on by one of
the Rivers Pollution Commissioners,
and al o by the British Association com
mittee, and both sets of exa miners re
ported the results as being quite salts
factory. Professor w. z. Corield,
M A., says that many sewer farms are
not drained at all, but that the plants
growing on the soil take up the organic
matters from the sewage, and the WAGER
which passes off (the overaow) is re-
markably pure. To work this system,
if we had a farm low enough, the
sewage could be taken to it by gravita-
ton; if not, 1t would have to be raised
by pumping, which would incur
quite an expense. It is also
farm to have piece of
allow land to be- used as filter, not
y 18th a view to any great returns ,abut
simply with view to purify the
sewage. There is another system which
nay be worthy of consideration in this
inland country were cement is almost
out of the question for any building
purpose on account of the freight
charges bringing it out of the reach of
any but millIonaires. 1t is what is
known as General SCOTS process, and
consists in mixing the sewage with a
certain amount of lime and clay; about
1000 pounds of lime and 1000 pounds
of clay are added to the 100000 gallons
of sewage. This mixture is added to
the sewage in the sewers before it gets
to the tanks. The result is that the
sewage, is entirely deodorized; it Is al
lowed to settle in tanks, the whole
of the suspended matters, including
the lime and clay, which have
been added, are deposited at the bottom
of the tanks. This deposit is. run out
in semi liquid condition as soon as
there is enough of it. 1t is than dried,
or it may be compressed by what is
known as Needham's and Kites press,
which has number of canvas bags in
II, into which bags this mud is thrown
or run. They are then pressed together
by hydraulic press. As much of the
water as possible is then squeezed out
of the mud, leaving it in a comparatively
frysstate. 1t is then taken up in Jumps,
Fied by heat, ii necessary, andsplaced
IN kiln. A fire is lighted below 1t
with a small quantity of coal, and il
burns. The sewage deposit. with the
clay and lime, is supplied with the Kiln.
al the top and it is gradually taken out
asa "a bprAed, through an opening in
the tot ON, and no more coal is re-
mir. d as thereis enough organic mat
ter in lhe deposit to Keep it burning
when once lighted for, any length of
time The result is, after grinding, the
is an excellent cement. This
&c Den lean be made of different quail
tiles, aud the process causes no of
tense. The liquidmatter could be dis