The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-27

bors. For years we have longed to
stretch forth the hand of good fellow
ship. Expected cheers didn't ma
terialize-) In that time we have been
spending $4,000. 900 mostly for your
benefit (No cheers.)
You never suspected but we knew
ali the time that when the Calumet
Sag canal was completed that it
would flush your Calumet river as
well as our (No enthusiasm)
Now we have come to break the
good news to you. To tell you that
we have been doing all of these
things for the purpose of purifying |
your water supply as we'll as our
own. mo cries of go on.)
I'VE stretch forth our hands for
your garbage and plan. hence-forth |
and forever, to clean out your 'reek- |
ing with pollution streams. We do |
this for the good of humanity and |
with no thought of personal or sani-
tary district benefit. (No cries of
hear hear.H
I'VE simply ask that you organize,
in Indiana, a sanitary district similar
to the one we have over there in I'LL
nois. We suggest then that you ap-
ply to the government for the right
to take from the lake at least 5000
cubic feet of water per secondhand
more If you can get it. In fact get
q 90 hn nd 90
some anyway. fNo huzzas.l
Pardon the depression.
What you people need is sani-
tary district. A district that will
have the sanction of the state A dis
| trict that will represent the 100000
people in Northern Indiana and will
make more of an impression on the
federal government (No shouts of
keep it up old top.')
and We come to you with our
v-a-h-s-t experience, our legal and
Engineering forces, our maps and
plans and our tailormade bill. We
come to you fresh from the governor
lwho--''
| Voice from the audience. did not
know local conditions and fell for
your scheme without calling in Lake
county people for conference
who gave us every consideration
Northern Indiana sanitary district. :"
(No wild acclaim.)
| This was the tenor of Mr.. Lees
talk and he wonders why there was
no more enthusiasm evidenced for
his plan. He fails to see that the
people of the Calumet region in Indi-
lana saw through lis plan is and resaliz-
ed that the entire drainage district
Organization would not come down
here for the purpose of advancing a
Iplan that was solely for the benefit of
the cities of Indiana
i And now that we understand our
lselves. 1t might be said that there
is a great deal of merit in Mr.. Lees
suggestions. There is no good reason
THE TIMES can see why the sewage
disposal matters of the cities of
northern Lake county should not be
, handled by a sanitary district or
[ Eganization.
Il At least these cities should CO.
; Ioperate closely with the sanitary
district of Illinois in the publication
, of the joint water supply. It may be
, THAT with the opening of the sag
canal that Hammond's plans for the
building of sewage publication plant
, lat enormous cost might be delayed for
, a few years.
If a sanitary district covered the
cities. of Hammond, Whiting, East
tChicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary
there is no reason why the sewage
from Whiting and Robertsdale, which
is now dumped into the lake, could
mot be reversed to the river at Ham
: mond without great expense to the
local territory that woult
= be benefited.
And in return for the cooperation
:. that would result from carrying GU
: the suggestions made by the sanitar,
: district officials the cities in Indian;
: lcould urge the early completion o
l. 1.-THE Sag canal which would revers'
II the flow of the Calumet river, proven
1.-The pollution of the water supply o
= the entire region, clean out the Calu
Imet river in Hammond, East Chicag,
and Gary and accomplish much good
With the present relations between
Indiana cities and the sanitary dis
, ttrict the cities of the Calumet dis
. Itrict in Indiana will be only Incl
tdentally. the beneficiaries of the plal
81 to reverse the flow of the Calume
II Iriver. They will have no real say S
20 s;. a. eou, ~ water tbro,y