Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-16
IMPRESSED WITH
IMHOFF PLANTS.
Orange Officials Agree Allan
ta's Sewage Disposal Sys-
tenn Is Success.

Those of the Orange officials who
arrived from Atlanta, Ga, after in
specting the Imhoff sewage plant In
that city. agree that the system
seems to be a success. They believe
that such a plant to take care Of the
sewage of Montclair East Orange
and Orange would not be offensive
If erected In Soho. on the border
line of Belleville and Bloomfield
Councilman Charles A. LeMaster,
City Engineer Fred C. Crane and
William Calhoun. a member of the
advisory committee, are satisfied
that Atlanta is getting good results
from the plant and the money the
city is spending is well spent. 1t is
expected that nearly all of the others
who made the trip will be home this
afternoon, with the exception of
Councilman Henry T. Stetson and
Stuart Lindsey, who have gone to
New Orleans
Three Separate Plants.
MI. LIE MdSlcI gave Liz
statement of the inspection trip:
Because of the topography of At
ianta, the officials and consulting en-
gineer decided that it would be more
economical to construct three sepa-
rate and distinct disposal plants that
could be fed by gravity, than one
large enough to take care of the en-
tire city, and much of the sewage
have to be pumped to the plant
zone of the three plants, Proctor
Greek. is completed and has been in
operation since last August. This
plant is located four miles from the
centre of the city and takes care of
1000. 900 gallons of sewage daily. The
system consists of four Imhoff tanks
used to separate the solids from the
liquids, dosing chambers and the nj
tration beds. The entire plant Is OF
cement construction, excepting the
filing of the filtration beds, which is
an inch and one-half cracked stone
to the depth of four and one-half
feet
1.-THE effluent after passing through
the filtration beds passes off through
a twenty-four-inc pipe and empties
into Proctor Creek about 300 feet
from the plant, and at no time from
the time the sewage enters the plant
until the effluent empties into the
creek below is there the slightest
odor, and 1 should say that the plant
is working perfectly and doing all
that is claimed for it. This plant is
operated with three laborers who are
paid $3.50 each per day and a foreman
whom they pay SIS per month. The
cost of this plant was s105000, which
was also the estimated cost.
Costs About 100000.
1.-THE Peach Tree plant, which is
plant No. ., is now under construc-
tiop and will be completed in from
sixty to ninety days. This plant Is
much larger than Proctor Creek plant,
consisting of thirty tanks and cover
ing about five acres of land This
will, when completed, take care of
100000 gallons of sewage daily. The
old trunk sewer which has been in
operation for years passes by this
plant and empties into the Cherokee
OTeek d QlSldUC6 DelOW.
THE main residence street of the
city. Peach Tree lane. passes within
three quarters of a mile of this plant,
and since the city started the plant
property values have increased in this
section from 800 per cent. to 500 per
cent, which, to my mind, shows that
the people of that section are not
afraid of the Imhoff system.
"Intrenchment Creek, or plant No.
8, has just been started. 1t will consist
of sixteen tanks, will cover about
three acres of land and will care for
100000 gallons of sewage daily. This
plant is located about eight miles
from the centre of the city. The
entire cost of the three plants will be
about 100000 1t occurs to me that
this Southern city has gone a long
way toward solving the problem of
sewage disposal. They have gone
into the matter extensively: in fact,
more extensively than any other city
in America, and they are getting re-
suits and are satisfied that the money
they are spending for improvements
in this line is money well spent"