Evening star., 1937-11-21
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
DATA GIVEN CITY
lckeS Report Cites Prece.
dent for D. c. Control of
Sewers Use.

information supplied the COmmlS-
sioners on industrial waste problems
in numerous cities by Secretary of the
Interior Ickes, it was said yesterday,
has been turned over to the Districts
legal and sanitary officers for study.
1t will be used to help the Com
missioners determine the proper ac-
ton in regard to reconsideration of
the Collins bill providing for the
taxing and regulation of industrial
waste discharged into the city's sew
age disposal plant. Early considera-
tion of the Collins bill or similar
legislation is desirable in the opinion
Of District and Federal officials be-.
cause Of threatened resumption of the
Adolf Gohel slaughter house in Ben
ming.
Ample precedent seems to have
been established for enactment of
legislation which would give the Dis
trict some measure Of control over the
extent to which the public sewers are
to be used by heavy industry" Mr..
Ickes informed the Commissioners.
Additional Information.
A report on survey conducted in
other cities. Q part Of which dealing
with former Gobel subsidiary
slaughter house in Iowa having pre-
viously been made public, divulged
the following additional informa-
ton:
"Hormel l. Co. of Austin, Mimi,
convert the solids Of their sewage and
chemically treat the efluent at a cost
for chlorine alone of from $50 to $75
per day.
THE combined treatment of pack
ing house wastes with domestic
sewage proved to be unfeasible at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the Sin
clair Packing Co. pays the city for
the independent treatment of their
wastes.
1.-TWO large packers at Fort Worth,
Tex, the Armour and Neuhoff COM
panies, have been required to install
their own treatment plants.
"At Huron, s. Dak., Armour 4 Co.
pay to the city an amount to
amortize the cost of construction Of
the sewage disposal plant which Is
owned and operated by the city. It
also pays a proportionate part Of the
cost of operation.
Firm Operates Own Plants.
"At Fargo, N. OAK, where the
P. w. A. financed the construction Of
city sewers and disposal plant, the
Armour and Swift companies in
stalled their own primary treatment
plants, which they operate at their
own expense. The proportionate cost
charged them Cncluding the pro-rata
of overheaO of the city treatment
works was about $15O,000.
"At Sioux Falls, S. Oak, the city
installed q treatment works. which
combined domestic sewage with the
packing house wastes, some IL years
ago. The difficulties encountered
forced the city to rebuild the plant
and to install the activated sludge
method with aeration. The city
charges the packers with the pro-
portionate part Of the cost of mainte-
nance and operation, as they did also
for the costs of construction.
1.-THE city Of Buffalo and many
others use the, sewer rental law" as q
means of taxation based upon extraor-
dinary use to cover the cost Of
maintenance and expense Of operation.
"Other cities make q direct con-
tract with the parties interested, such
as Oklahoma City with the National
Stockyards Co., Wilson & Co. and
Armour & Co., whereby the discharge
to the city sewer system is metered
and payment for the disposal Of
wastes is made to the city based upon
a scale which starts at 6 cents per
100 gallons"