New Britain herald., 1930-03-18
GROUP AUTHORIZED
 ID STUDY SEWAGE
Expert Tells ToWnspeOple Pe- QuabuCk Pollution Must Cease
PEDDLING LAWS ADOPTED
Chamber of Commerce Banquet May
 Selecting of Tiremen's Ball
 Committec-I. M. C. A. Basket ball Team Dcfcated-Othcr Items

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 At a small but representative gathering at the special town meet ing held last evening in the auditor ium of the high school, a resolu- ton was passed authorizing tn board of selectmen to appoint a committee of five to investigate re- garding the disposal of sewage in Plainville. This committee is to make a report with definite recom- mendations of sewage disposal and is authorized to confer with the City of Bristol on the advisability of d joint sewage plant. Following a rec ommendation made by Henry Trum- bull the sewage committee was or dered to make a report in not more than one year.
 The meeting was called to order ! by First Selectman James Simpson. A vote was t; ken and Stanley $. Gwillim was appointed chairman of the meeting. Upon Mr. Gwillim s request, Town Clerk William H. | Wilson read a letter from the state water commission directing the at tention of the people of the town to the pollution of streams passing through here. The letter stated that the commission discovered three years ago that the Pequabuck river was being polluted by Plainville sewage. Three suggestions for a remedy of the conditions existing here were included in the letter, a$ follows:
 l. That a sum of money be ap- propriated to bring the previous en. gineering survey made by Engineer Joseph N. Mckernan of the Plain vile Water Co. up to date.
 ?. The selection and acquisition of such land or option thereon as the survey indicates should be ob. tained for a sewage treatment plant
 3. That d study of the most suit able means of financing the con- structon of q sewage system should l be made.
 Expert Explains Conditions
 In speaking before the gathering Sanford II. Wadhams of Torrington a member of the state water com. mission, stated that the time had come when it was necessary for the people of plainvillc to give serious attention to the sewage problem facing them and to do somethin= definite to lessen the pollution o the PequabuCk river. This river according to MT. Wadhams is badl, polluted as the result of Plainville'! sewage being dumped into it. q fac which was first discovered three years ago by the state commission
 He told his listeners that the state commission had power to act unde. the state statutes but it's policy wa. to place the matter before the com munity involved for settlement H. said that several years ago a sew. age survey was made by Mr. Me. 1<ernan and it would take only z small amount of money to bring il up to date. MT. Wadhams Wa. high in his praise of the sewag, disposal plant in Bristol and saie that 1t was one of the best in ths state. This Bristol plant takes cart Of the entire city outside of tn, Forestville section. The only wa, that sewage in Forestville could b, taken care of at the present tim, would be by pumping, therefore 1; would save a great deal of none, and time if Plainville and Bristo conferred concerning the construc tion of joint sewage disposal plant he said.
 Mr. Wadhams stated that the pol luton of the Pequabuck rive should be stopped so that the wate could be used for the purpose fo which it waa intended An engin eer from the state water depart ment said, in answer to d question