Sewerage and sewage disposal in the metropolitan district of New York and New Jersey
Subtitle: report, April 30, 1910.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: [New York
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Sewerage -- New Jersey.; Sewerage -- New York (State) -- New York; Harbors -- New York (State) -- New York.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Summary of report.; title: pt. II. Summary of investigations. Replies to the specific questions in the act creating the ... Commission. Digest of the Commission's investigation. Summary of existing conditions.; title: pt. III. Data collected. Movement for a clean harbor. Population ... and the volume of sewage discharged. Tidal phenomena. Harbor currents. Sewerage and sewage disposal works. Fouling of the beaches. Bacterial content of the harbor waters. Evidence of pollution of harbor waters. Evidence of pollution in the deposits on the bottom of the harbor. Diffusion and digestion of sewage. Relation between the pollution of the harbor waters and public health. Legal jurisdiction. Salinity of the waters. Condition of the sewers. Organization of the force employed.