Evening star., 1937-08-01
STUDY IS PLANNED
|0F INDUSTRIAL FEE
TO TREAT SEWAGE
City Heads Meet Tuesday on
Problems Raised by
Slaughter House.
CHICAG0'S REGULATION
IS EXAMINED BY SEAL
Delano Sees Situation in District
Similar to That of Western
Packing Centers.

When the Commissioners meet
TO consider sewage problems
brought up by Secretary Ickes in con-
nection with the proposed Adolf Gobel
slaughter house, it was indicated yes
terday they would inquire into the
question Of charging Industries for
sewage treatment at the new Blue
Plains plant on volume basis
In anticipation Of being asked for q
legal opinion on this question, Corp
Grafton Counsel Elwood Seal was
studying a certain Chicago sanitary
district regulation which exacts pay
ment from the large meat packers and
other industrial users of the sewage
treatment works. This course was
adopted by the municipality in 1927
because Of the tremendous overload on
the sewage system from industrial
wastes.
Copy of Regulation.
A copy Of this regulation, which
probably will be taken up at the
forthcoming board meeting, reads as
follows:
The sanitary district, In addition 10
the other powers vested in it, is en-
powered
la To regulate and control the
discharge Of so-called factory or indus
trial wastes, either in solution or sus-
pension, into the sewers or works of
said sanitary district. whether said
discharges are made directly into the
works or sewers of said sanitary dis
trict or indirectly through the sewer
systems of municipality or other
area lying within the boundaries of
said district;
"tb} To contract with the industry
or industries producing wastes for the
purpose of determining the amount Of
treatment which said industry or in
dustries shall give the wastes al the
point OF origin. and also for the pur-
pose Of determining what payment
said industry or industries shall make
annually or otherwise for the treat
ment which may be given its wastes
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"(c) To require any occupant of
any industrial premises inside Or OUT
side of the boundaries of any estab-
lished municipality within the area Of
said sanitary district engaged in dis
charging factory or industrial wastes
into any river. canal, ditch or other
waterway within the boundaries Of
said sanitary district to construct
new sewage disposal plants and to so
change or rebuild any outlet. drain
or sewer as to discharge said factory
or industrial waste or trade waste
into the sewers of such municipality
or into such interceptlng sewers as
may be established by said sanitary
district under such regulations as
said sanitary district may determine;
I'D To make. promulgate and en-
force such reasonable rates and reeu-
lations for the supervision. protection,
management and use of any system
OF intercepting sewers and treatment
works as it may deem expedient, and
such regulations shall prescribe the
manner in which connections to the
main sewers or intercepting sewers
shall be made and may prohibit dis
charge into said sewers of any liquid
or solid waste deemed detrimental
to the sewerage system or treatment
works of said sanitary district"
Small Chicago Problem"
Chairman Frederic A. Delano Of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission is familiar with the
Chicago ordinance. He claimed yes
terday that the District had small
Chicago problem" on its hands in view
of the proposed Gobel slaughter house
operations in Bennlng.
The great packing houses in Chi
caeo overloaded the sewage system
10 such an extent that the city was
driven to take the matter into its
own hands" he said. The problem
presented by the Gobel plans is
smaller one, but it is identical to this
conditions that existed in Chicago.
The District of Columbia would do
well to take the proper precautions
at this time"
Delano came here Frida, for the
meeting Of his commission and re-
turned to his Summer home in New
York State yesterday afternoon, While
here he inquired fully into the devel-
opments in the Gobel case. The Park
and Planning Commission last Friday
had voted to continue to oppose erec-
ton of the slaughter house
No Construction Move.
So far as was known. the Gobel
headquarters in New York has made
no new move to resume construction
on the Benning site since its decision
two weeks ago to go ahead" with
its building plans.
Meanwhile it developed that a new
study Of the plans filed by the Gobel
company with the District building in
spector's office are being studied by
Frederick H. Walton, an expert in the
Interior Department. Walton built
the largest slaughter house in the
world at Buenos Aires and is one Of
the best-knoun authorities on such
construction work
At the former Senate hearing on
the anti-nuiSance bill, which even-
tually was blocked for the remainder
Of the session, Walton said he did not
think the slaughter house which Co.