The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-07
Legislature to Be Asked to
Pass Bill Forcing New
Plan for Disposal of
All Sewage.
KENOSHA TO Be HARD HIT
Local Officials Are Not Expected to
oppose the Measure and Plans May
Be Made at once TO Anticipate its
Demand in Cleaning Up Lake.

Kenosha must get ready to provide
for the processing of the sewage of
the city. Announcement comes from
Milwaukee today that at the next SEES
sion of the Wisconsin Legislature
bill WILDE introduced to compel all
Wisconsin cities either on the smaller
lakes of the state or on Lake Michi-
gan or Superior to erect sewage dis
posal plants. The proposed law will
give the state the right to enjoin any
city from pouring into the lake pollution
from sewers, either directly or indirect
ly. The bill will be aimed not only at
the pollution Of the lake by city sewage
but also at all manufacturing plants
which have been pouring refuse either
directly or Indirectly into the lake.
Lake cities Immediately effected by
the proposed legislation will be Keno
sha, Racine, Port Washington, Sheboy
gan, Milwaukee and host of smaller
industrial cities along the lake. Osh-
kosh and Fon du Lac will be the largest
cities to be effected by the proposed
protection of the inland lakes.
Kenosha will be one of the hardest
hit Of the cities Of the state by the
proposed legislation. Most Of the other
cities to be effected by the legislation
have already laid plans for sewage
disposal. Kenosha has never even
considered the proposition officially.
The legislation is being urged especial
~ by Milwaukee which is building a
ten million dollar sewage disposal plant
ir hopes that it will be able to get
rid Of all pollution of its water sup
ply. While thelegislation will mean
very large expenditures for all of the
lake shore cities it is not believed that
it will be opposed by any of these eli
ties. Officials Of the cities have for
years recognized the fact that sooner
or later they must meet the problem
of sewage disposal and meet it in
big way and most of them will welcome
state law to force action.
The law will solves the problem of
cleaning up the Kenosha river. 1t
will force the building Of septic tanks
not only by the city but also by a
number of manufacturing plants which
have for years poured the refuse of the
plants into the Kenosha river. The
main trunk sewer in Kenosha was built
, with a view of being connected with a
sewage disposal plant some time in the
future but the plans for the sewer
did not work out the question of dis
posal and ii was left as a future en-
gineering problem for the city.
One of the leaders of the Kenosha
council in discussing the matter this
morning said, "We have known for
long time that this was coming sooner
or later and it will be no more of a
hardship on Kenosha than on a lot
OF other places. Kenosha has spent
nearly a half million dollars build
ing a modern water plant and to com
plete the job like amount should be
expended to provide for the disposal
OF the sewage of the city. 1t may re-
quire the expenditure of even larger
amount but it WILDE worth the expen-
diture I do not believe that there
will be any organized opposition TO
this bill on the part Of the city Of Ke-