The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-08
of interest to every municipal gov ernment and to every sanitary expert. Says MT. Showalter, in part:

Says MT. Showalter, in part:
 A mounting typhoid rate. making the city more nearly pest-hole than a proper habitation for man. demon- strated that 1t could not continue to mix sewage with drinking water by draining the sewers into the lake.
 So, heroic measures were taken to end the pollution. The Chicago river was forced to give up an age-long right to contribute its water to the St. Lawrence, and was made to flow across the divide separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi river. Thus waters that normally ran into the Gulf of St. Lawrence were dispatched into the Gulf of Mexico and made to carry the burden of Chicago's sewage as they went
 This was accomplished by the con- struction of a drainage canal S6 miles long, from the south branch of the Chicago river to the Illinois river at Joliet. This waterway, "A feet deep, and s4 feet wide in rock and POP in earth, has a fall of 40 feet. It serves the triple purpose of drainage, naviga- ton and power development It was built larger than the requirements of the hour for drainage. and sooner or later will form part of the wa terway that will permit river steam CTS to ply between the lakes and the gulf.
 When the state legislation authoriz- ing the canal was passed, a provi- sion was incorporated providing that, in order to prevent the sewage from becoming a nuisance and a menace to the country through which the canal passes, there should be flow of 3s3 1-s cubic feet per second for every 100000 people, Realizing that the pop uIation would probably reach 100000 by 1880, the city provided for flow of 10000 feet per second, with an ultimate capacity of 14,O0o feet.
 Through the sanitary district. which now comprises a territory of 35S square miles, covering the region from the town of wilmette to the Indiana line, the city is both real estate operator and the owner of a power plant. Nine great aluminium wires carry 42.OOo / horsepower cityward from the hydro electric plant above Joliet. They sup ply one county, 12 municipalities, and many private concerns, besides fur nishing the city itself with power for pumping water out of the lake into the city mains and the canal. and for lighting the 14,00o arc lights used In the municipal system
 The result of the opening of the drainage canal was phenomenal. Ty- phoid, which had reached a degree of prevalence that was truly alarm ing, began to subside immediately, and Chicago, but lately the most un- healthful principal city in America, soon was cutting down its death rate faster than any similar community anywhere. No man who knows the history of the conquest of water borne disease by the building. of this canal can fail to appreciate the tr1- umph of the sanitarians. W5 The Secretary of War, under hi control of navigable waters, "steppe in" and fixed the flow at 5000.
 A friendly suit, which is still pend ing, was brought into the fedora courts to determine the relativ powers of the state, the city and tn United States government in tn premises. Upon the outcome "hinge the question of whether or not Chicag can send enough Lake Michigan wate down the Mississippi river to protec the lake from pollution" Engineer and the general public hope and be lieve that the suit will be decided i favor of Illinois.
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