New Britain herald., 1927-08-30
Built for City Of 10000 Resi-
dents, State Water Commission
Engineer Tells Lions Club
WELD, QUIGLEY, PA0NESSA
TAKE PART IN DISCUSSION
DR.. William r. Copeland Says New
Britain Has Not Added Single
Acre to Its Equipment In Berlin
Describes Growing Menace to Sea
Municipalities.

The present sewage disposal plant
in New Britain is not adequate for
a city with a population of more
than 10000, according to DR.. Will
liam r. Copeland, sanitary engineer
of the state water commission, who
addressed members of the Lions
club at the Burritt hotel today
He was catechized by ex-Mayors
George A. Quigley and Angelo NJ.
Paonessa. Mayor Weld also joined
in the discussion.
DIR. Copeland opened his talk by
stating that streams and bodies of
water in the state of Connecticut
now are receiving considerable for
cign matter. to the detriment of
those who wish to use that water for
recreational and drinking purposes.
He said there are many industrial
plants along the shore of Long Island
Sound whose existence depends upon
pure water and that the state water
commission is receiving complaints
every day that the water no longer
is fit even for manufacturing pur-
poses. Thousands of dollars a year
are being spent to treat the water,
he said.
He said New Britain is spending
what may amount in a short time
to 100000 for an adequate supply
of drinking water, while Waterbury
is spending approximately $1,000
600. The city of Waterbury did not
go to nearby streams but went out
and bored a hole in a mountain to
get water fit to drink. Now he con-
tinued, people living where Water
bury gets its water say the city OF
Waterbury slipped upon them like
thief in the night and took away
the water they needed for them
selves.
THE time is not tar off when the
people living in this state must have
purer water for their own use and
for their manufactures" he said. 1t
is up to every citizen to do his share
to purify the streams"
He said in 1900 New Britain had,
$4,000 people and built a sewage dis
posal plant at great expense. Several
times the plant was enlarged up to
1919, when the city had 10000 resi-
dents. THE city OF New Britain now
has $4,000 people and since 1919 has
not added a single acre to its sewer
beds to care for more than 10000
people"
Filter Beds Overloaded
you have overloaded the sand
filter beds until they cannot do the
work they are expected to do New
lawsuit because of the pollution of
water into the streams below the
city. The city has purchased land
along the streams almost all the
way to the Connecticut river SO that
| it may pour its sewage into them"
He said the statement has been
made that New Britain sewage has
so much industrial waste that the
sewage disposal plant could not ham
die it. He quoted statistics to show
that tests made last Tuesday by the
state, when samples We're taken ev-
cry five minutes and later analysed,
proved that it could be handled, as
well as it was handled in 1919.
Contents of Industrial Waste
New Britain's Industrial waste,
he said contains iron, copper. tin,
zinc and cyanide. OF the iron the
samples showed IA parts of a mil
lion while they showed 13 in 1919.
Of copper there were 1 IL parts to
million. There were two-tenths
parts of nickel and none of cyanide.
This, he said. proved that sewage
can be purified today. He said
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