The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-25
MUST GET RID OF SEWER EVIL
Plan For General Water Supply is
Suggested But Legislature Of State
Must Act TO Prevent Implying Sew
ers Into Lake

Wanted! A water supply for the
Lake Shore Cities.
A sewerage system also would be
appreciated by the residents of the
Lake shore municipalities.
These are the needs as set forth yes
terday in the advance copies of the
annual report of the North Shore SAM.
tary association.
This organization came into existence
about a year ago after conference
with the Chicago Association of Com
merce and members of the Lake Michi-
gan Sanitary association. 1t was point
ed then that steps should be taken i'm
mediately to study the needs of the
towns along the North Shore beyond
the jurisdiction of the Chicago SAM
tary district.
A year has been spent to determine
what should be done to dispose of
the sewage of the North Shore. and to
decide upon a plan whereby a water
supply free from contamination can be
procured for the municipalities of High
land Park, Lake Forest, Lake. Bluff
North Chicago, Waukegan Highwood
Ravina, the u. S. Training station, Fort
Sheridan, Kemosha and Racine.
David I'll. jackson of Lake Forest
president of the North Shore asso-
citation, sounds, an alarming note
throughout his report regarding the
water supply and sewage disposal.
''The most serious problem which
confronts the north shore territory,
argues President Jackson, lis that OF
sanitation and it will grow more serious
unless solution is discovered and
applied"
Mr.. jackson does not favor the ex
tension of the Chicago sanitary dis
trict to enable that organization te
carry away the sewage.
"For in this way he says. "Lake
county might find. after spending hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, that the
sewerage canal could not be used with
out going farther and treated the
sewage with septic tank.
Continuing the report says:
"There are at least four well defined
suggestions for sewage disposal: First
to dig a canal up the Skokie connect
ing with the sanitary district Of Chica
go and either by pumps orkdeep sewers
carry the sewage along the lake across
| into the Skohie. Second, to build in
tercepting sewers, probably one up the
Skokie and one up about Sheridan
road, both connecting with the Chicago
sanitary district. Third, to treat the
sewage by septic tanks, contact beds
and like methods, finally disposing OF
the ef1uent in the lake. Fourth, te
treat the sewage by some of the last
mentioned methods and then run the
effluent into intercepting sewers as
suggested in two.
| The conditions along the north shore
as to the water supply are set forth il
the report by means of an address
which was delivered by Langder
Pearce, in part he says:
Sin shore samples, 400 to 500 feet out
in every case but one of ninety two
excessively high bacterial counts were
often found. The counts ran from 3S4
to 80 900 per c. c., with one of Sc per G
c. B. coli was present more than hall
the time.
"Off shore samples, one mile, il
every case but sixteen out Of seventy
three, the bacterial counts were high
ranging, however, from 10 to $4,000
per c. c.. B. coli are present often II
neither of these cases is the water fl
for drinking purposes, unless it be steri
lized, boiled, or filtered.
/ "Samples also were taken from of
shore at distance of four and five
miles with bacterial counts running
highest off Lake Forest. Evanston, and
| Waukegan, as these cities discharge
the largest amounts of pollution int
the lake
Legislation by the coming genera
assembly is urged, but the president il
| pessimistic as to anything being done
in this direction. The report says fur
Their:
'sThe writer has been impressed Will
the idea that the first step to be takeI
should be to get pure water either BY
filtration or by going out into the lake
1t seems as if the most sensible thing
to do would be to go out five miles int
the lake at some point, say, Lake Bluff
and distribute the water in both direc
tions to all the cities along the shore
Certainly there would be greater likeli
hood of an uninterrupted supply of gooc
water if taken from place in tn,
lake where the water is pure.