The record-union., 1891-05-27
CITIZENS NAY READ AND LEARN.
WOrceStefs Splendid Method Of DisPosing Of
All Her Sewage.
FACTS THAT We MUST GRAPPLE WITH
Experience Of English, Garmal, French and American
CltiGS-ClGmiGal Precipitation Il is,
and How Ii is Accomplished

AS it appears to be difficult to rouse the
authorities of this city to the ordinary,
prudential inquiry every man should
make when new subject is presented TO
him-that is, to inform himself-the
REcoRD-UN which has shown beyond
dispute that any dabbllng with the
county drainage ditch is folly, a waste of
time, undertakes to present to the public
in q brief form of facts evolved by the
disposal of sewage by the city of Wor-
cester, Mass. These facts are in two re-
ports made in 1887, after the CITY
Council informed itself, and one in 1890,
after a years trial of the plan Worcester
adopted.
THEY WOULD NOT BE GUILTY OF IG-
NoRANCE.
In September, 1888, the City Council of
Worcester, Mass, decided that sit would
be guilty of gross negligence if it failed
longer to inform itself fully as TO the sub
ject OF the sewerage plans tried and pro-
posed in the world, and the results of ex-
pertinent and practice in the disposal of
the sewage"
THEY INFORM THEMSELVES.
In October of that year the Council
voted 500 to pay the expense of sending
its City Engineer, Mr.. Allen. to Europe
to investigate the whole subject. There
upon the engineer visited England.
France and Germany, Pullman, H., and
other points and thoroughly posted him
self as to the various systems of the
world. In 1897 Engineer Allen reported
fully the results of his Investigations.
lna
nous pamphlet.
OF the Croydon, Eng, sewage farm, he
reported that it had been in operation
thirty years. Two outfall sewers deliver
the sewage by gravity upon the farm.
There 1t is screened and all solid matter
removed by means of a patented ma
chine. The sewage is delivered in
trenches thirty-five feet apart. 1t varies
from three to ten million gallons daily.
Croydon has two sets of sewers-one for
surface drainage, one for fifth drainage.
The farm does not pay expenses. 1t re-
ceIyes the sewage Of population of Co.
900 people. Its output for the work is
about $4,000 IN excess of the income.
a SEWAGE FARM.
AT Doncaster, Eng, there is the best
managed sewage farm known. The sew
age is screened and pumped to the farm.
which is titty-twofeet above thepumpino.
station. The sewage there is about ali
taken up by the vegetation. The soil is
light, and rests upon subsoil of red sand.
The tenant of the farm pays the city SIS a
year per acre for the delivery of the sew
age and the use of the land. He has not
been able 10 make ii pay. The combined
system of sewers is used. The popula-
ton is $4,000.
Barnsley has a farm of seventy acres.
and treats 100000 gallons OF sewage
daily. The ground is undetermined. The
application is intermittent, so that lint
one section of the farm is in use at one
time. The etfluent is discharged into the
river Dearne.
Wigan, near Liverpool, has a sewage
farm. The attempt on that place to filter
the fluids has not been satisfactory. The
land is all underdrained. The sewage is
received in trenches, as at Croydon. The
population is $1,000, and the sewage
treated is 100000 gallons daily. The
crops raised are roots, barley, rye grass
and oats. The farm is not a success. either
financially or as sanitary measure.