New Britain herald., 1916-03-09

irving their profit from the bv- products which they are able to ,,rn- 1 duce.
 ] The ashes collected would be 1 dumped as in plan
 This plan is probably impossible in New Britain at the present time, be- 1 cause no company would care to ] provide and operate a plant. as the amount of material would not be sufficient to make the operation 1 pTOfita ble.
 l These plants are seldom installed tc care for the material received from Q city of less than one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand inha bitants Under this plan, while the disposal of the material would be without cost ] tc the city, the collection and delivery tc the plant would be greatly in 1 creased, because of the fact, that 1 owing to the odors. from the plant it would of necessity be located in some 1 obscure spot several miles from the center of the city,
 l Plan 3. system of incneration of garbage, dead animals, and rubbish was investigated thoroughly. l An incinerator plant would be located near the center of the city within one mile of the Triangle, where all rubbish, garbage, and dead ami mals could be disposed of without odOr or other objectionable features. The location of the plant could be such that the shortest possible aver age haul could be secured and from 1 the standpoint of results this system ! of disposal would be most satisfac- tory. In one city investigated, the ] incinerator plant is in the next lot to a school house and the ashes and ciinkers which is the only material resulting from incineration, is being used at the present time to fill a low Ilace on the rear of the school play ground.
 The method of incineration is not Jew, having been in operation in foreign countries for many years, and in this country for cOnsidera ble length of time. There are several methods of incineration giving vary ing degrees of satisfactory. results. and, varying considera bly, in cost of plant and operation.
 Your committee in preparing an estimate of cost of the incineratOr system in New Britain has considered a method which, while comparatively new, has been in a number of cities covering a period of several years, and the answers to inquiries have been satisfactory in every case.
 The method consists of burning the 1 waste on water jacketed grates after the same has been subject to great heat and all moisture eliminated. By this method, the dry waste becomes a fuel and very little additional fuel is ever required. The water Jacketed srater provide abundant steam and .:r.lo hn
 heating the plant, and cleaning wagons and material used in the col
 lection and delivery of material to the plant.
 Ashes would be dumped as in plans
 1 and ?.
 A fifty ton inCineratOr would, in the
 opinion of your committee, be suffi- cient for the requirements of New l Britain for several years, and it would he so constructed that an additional
 twenty five or fifty ton unit could be ladded without material change to the first plant. A fifty ton plant would probably be of sufficient capacity for a population of over So,00O. Your committee has estimated the cost per ton for operation and main- tenance of the plant on figures sub- mitted by other cities where these 1,lants have been in operation some time The costs furnished by these l Iants range from 25c to 45c per ton rf material incinerated, and the con- pany manufa curing the incinerators l will guarantee that the complete cost will not exceed soc per ton. Based on the analysis of the con- Gitions, your committee, therefore, be- lieves that the cost for New Britain
 would not exceed 40 cents per ton.
 The following is the schedule show ing the detailed costs of plan 3:
 IncineratiOn
 ] EQuipment:--