New Britain herald., 1926-12-23
he commission, is attached.

the commission, is attached.
 'The committee feels that the matter has been taken up in an or derly manner whereby the prelimin- ary expense will be minimized. The committee also feels that the city is especially fortunate in having the cooperation of the state water con- mission with MT. William R. Cope land, it's sanitary engineer, who is entirely familiar with the sewage disposal plants of the very latest types constructed and being con- structed throughout the country.
 Respectfully submitted,
 Informal Committee on Stream
 Pollution
 'W. H. JUDD,
 'THURE BENGSTON,
 JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS.
 Report by Wadhams ITO the Members of the Mayors
 Committee on Sewage Disposal: New Britain, Connecticut.
 "Gentlemen:
 You will find a statement in the following pages of some of the req sons which led this commission to recommend that New Britain spend in the neighborhood of s6,O00 at this time in preparing preliminary sur vey and estimate of cost for new sewage disposal plant.
 Tt is a matter of common knowl- edge that the present filter beds are inadequate and cannot handle the sewage of the city. To remedy this condition it will be necessary to in- stall a new plant of sufficient capa- city to treat, not only the present volume of sewage, but the increase which will naturally occur in the case of a growing, and enterprising municipality in future years.
 ITO meet this situation in the most efficient and economical man. ner possible it will be necessary to undertake this preliminary survey and study of the conditions which confront your city. In this way only can a comprehensive plan and an orderly arrangement of procedure be developed. It might be stated here that the present proposed sur vey is not in any way duplication of any studies previously made. It is designed to secure basic data not now in existence and which 1t would be absolutely essential to have before taking the first step in con- struction work regardless of the type of plant to be installed.
 The class of information to be secured may be briefl wand incom- pletely outlined.
 "(a) Volume of sewage.
 ''The total volue of sewage must be determined not only for the A hour flow but for each subdivision of the o4 hours, and under all weather conditions. This is a slow and painstaking procedure but no intelligent estimate of the plant re- quired can be made until such facts are definitely determined and the figures carefully analysed. A guess or an incomplete estimate, on this factor alone would almost certainly cost the city many times the total sum to be expended for this study.
 This data has never been ascer- tained and even though it had been at some time in the past it would be necessary 10 repeat it now-this for the reason that New Britain has been developing rapidly both as to popu- lation and industries with the con- comitant increase in volume and change in character of the city scw- age.
 "(b) Existing sewers.
 Sewer mains in parts of the city are inadequate, in the case of tho older sewers joints are defective and large volumes of ground and storm waters are added to the sewage These factors must likewise be in vestigated as they will have an im- portant bearing on cost of the un- dertaking.