The Springdale news., 1914-05-15


 pools, vaults or dry closets shall be buried or incinerated. When such exereta is buried it shall be planted to a depth of not less than three any water saply, and shall not be buried within the corporate limits of any city or town, nor within 800 yards of any habitation.
 No abandoned well or deep we'll shall be used for sewage or a recep- tac1e for household waste
 No privy vault or cesspool or res eryoir into which priyy, water closet, sink or stable is drained, ex- cept it be watertight, shall be estab- lished in water bearing strata or with in 150 feet of any well. spring or any other source of water used for drink ing or culinary purposes.
 All priYy-Vaults, reservoirs or cess pools named in regulation PIT shall be cleaned and emptied of their con- tents at least once every year be- fore the 1st day of May, and shall at all times be kept thoroughly de. odorized and disinfected by adding to the contents thereof, at least once each month, or oftener if necessary, calcium hypochlorite as follows: Take the calcium hypochloride in powder form and sprinkle over the contents until the odor is abated, stir ring contents if necessary. All priyyvaults within the limits Of any city or town shall not be less than i've feet deep. and shall be construct ed of brick set in cement, or of coll crete construction.
 No priyy-yault, water closet, cess pool, sink or stable drain shall op- en into any ditch, stream or drain, except into the public sewers of any city, or into disposal tanks equipped with aerated contact or trickling filters of ample area.
 All sewer drains leading to out falls or disposal plants shall be of standard construction, and no sewer drain or outlet from any sewage dis posal plant, except as hereinafter provided, shall empty into any lake, pond, creek, stream or open field. Septic tanks, or other disposal tanks, shall be made of water-tight. concrete or masonry construction. The filters of disposal plants, except in isolated locations in non water bearing strata, shall be installed in basins with water-t tight bottoms and side walls.
 All disposal plants not discharging the effluent into an established sew CT system shall be provided with aerated filter beds constructed Of proper Altering materials and of sui fieient capacity to render the efflu- ent clear and non-putrescible at all seasons of the year; provided, that in the case of country residence and other isolated locations, the effluent from septic tanks, or cesSpools, or other types of sewage disposal need not be subjected 10 Alteration II such effluent can be discharged in suffl- cient isolation to prevent the cfea- ton of nuisance, or menace to health; and in any case the pollu- tion of any source ot domestic water supply must be avoided.
 The -putrescibility of effluents shall be determined by recognized tests.
 If the effluent from filters shall be discharged into any water-eourse open drain, stream or pond, or source ol water supply, or upon any loWlahd' where in any manner by dr1nklhg the effluent or wafer polluted by It, or by contact with the same, either by man or beast, pathogenlc germs may be transmitted, such effluent shall be sterilized by calcium hypo- chlorite, or other suitable and sale chemical means.
 The discharge of the effluent from septic disposal plants, or any other type of disposal plant, into abandon ed wells or into crevlced strata reaching water bearing strata rom which a domestic or public water supply is drawn, is prohibited.
 The different methods of irrigation and intermittent filtration are not intended to be excluded by the apoVe requirements, but are also permitted and recommended where the conol- tions and surroundings will allow such methods of sewage disposal to be safely employed without creating nuisance or menace to public health and without polluting any source of domestic or public water supply.
 Water Pollution.
 Any person or persons, firm, con- pany, corporation or association Ill