Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-12
SANITARY ENGINEER
GIVES GOOD ADVICE
On Sewerage Systems That Is
Applicable to Eagle River
Should Construct For
The Future

81 am somewhat surprised to find
that your sewerage system is not more
complete than it is" said State SAM
tary Engineer Baker, at the city hall
last evening when he addressed the
city council and large gathering of
interested citizens and taxpayers upon
the proposed action Of the city council
with reference to needed improve
ment in the city's present sewerage
plant.
81 believe however, that it is for
tunate that it is So continued the
speaker because your development up
to the present time has been in a
sort of haphazard way am not say
ing that to the discredit of any prev
ious city officials. It is a common
practice to put in a sewer here and
there when necessary to meet
the local and immediate needs with
out any consideration of future growth
and development. That is a policy
which if followed to any great extent
will necessitate the unnecessary
spending of thousands of dollars.
1T is necessary to take in considera-
ton not only the immediate needs Of
the municipality but also to consider
future development This provides
for the future growth for the next 25
or 80 years. If you don't do that you
will find that your out-falI sewerage
will be too small to take care of the
development of the municipality and
some Of your sewers are going to run
out of the ground when you get out Of
the boundaries of your city. SO that
it is necessary to consider a complete
and comprehensive development for
many years in the future in order to
develop economically and practically.
The State Board of Health in connec-
ton with the development of new
plans Of sewerage requires that com
plete plans be presented covering not
only immediate needs of the munili-
pality but also provide for future
growth along the lines I have men
toned.
Furthermore it requires that. this
kind of system be developed. There
are two general types in sewerage.
one known as the separate and the
other the combined. BY the separate
system Of sewerage we mean the sys-
tenn where we have one system of
pipes that carry the sewerage from
your homes and another system of
pipes that take care of the storm wa
ter. We require as l have stated, in
all new developments that the separ-
ate system be constructed There are
three reasons for this requirement.
In the first place it is impossible to
take care of all water in storms and
the result is you will get back flow
into your easements if you combine
the two types of sewerage in one pipe
In the second place the mixing, Of
the storm water with the sanitary
makes the treatment much more ex-
pensiye and interferes materially with
the proper treatment.
In the third place it is usually more
economical to construct on the separ-
ate rather than the combined system
You might say it is cheaper to con-
struct two rather than one? Yes, it
is. Because your storm system would
not need to be complete with the SAN
itary sewers. You can discharge storm
water into any convenient waterway
without treatment. You can use the
sanitary or combined sewers but when
you mix the two it means you must
conctruct large sewers to carry and
convey the sanitary and large accumu-
lations of storm water to suitable
outlet. While if you construct on the