The fouling of rivers by sewage must be rendered penal.
In the same lecture, Dr Richardson speaks with equal vehemence on the too prevalent practice of polluting rivers and wells by the influx of sewage from large towns and various kinds of public works, dye-works in particular.
What horrid ideas arise on the consideration that a large part of the population of London are daily using the water of the Thames, into which has been poured the sewage of Oxford and a number of other places!
One of the direst of the effects of the last attack is a dreadful bill--not a bile--which has caused a utilization sewage company to appear upon her body corporate.
By right thinking we can neutralize the poison sewage of our bodies, just as chemists can take the foul sewage water which flows out from a city and by the help of chemicals neutralize all the filth, making it absolutely pure again.
It is also necessary to secure that adequate water mains serve the site, and that the system of sewers be ample for all sewage purposes.
Neither thesewage system, nor the deep plough, nor the artificial manure has, as yet, succeeded in overcoming the vis inertiae of the idle earth.
After a season or two of sewage soaking the soil becomes so soft that in the winter months it is unapproachable.
Near the point to which we have now come the Ravensbourne enters the Thames, and with it the first black instalment of the sewage of London.
All around seems clean and pleasant, but underneath, built on arches of the Roman aqueduct pattern, there is a huge reservoir, which receives most of the sewage of the south side of the Thames.
It is in the neighbourhood of Pope's Villa that the injury which has been done to the Thames by the mass of sewage sludge that has been so recklessly poured into it of late years first becomes noticeable.
Meanwhile on the river we have to pass some ornate sewage works, and the wanton embankment of a railway, that here crosses to Littlemore.
A particular feature of the study of water supply is that in connection with the acidity of the Monongahela and the eastern affluents of the Allegheny and its effect upon the sewage discharged by an enormous town population into them.
The condition of Wilkinsburg is typical, its water supply being contaminated by thesewage of more than twenty towns.
The hollow, reached by sewage through winding crevices in rubbish, and by goats and dogs over hills of tin cans and refuse, is reached by the people themselves down flights of decaying steps.
All the drinking water used in the Pittsburgh District, except that from artesian wells or similar primarily pure sources, has been contaminated by the sewage of towns and villages higher up the rivers.
This is the Ewing street sewage making its way to the bottom of the valley.
His mind was apparently capable of everything, and she was hardly surprised to learn that he had made an important discovery for the conversion of sewage into agricultural manure.
Filtration from below upwards, he explained, through some appropriate medium, which retained the solids and set free the fluid sewage for irrigation, was the principle of the scheme.
A striking feature of all the German work on chlorination is the very high degree of purification aimed at: quantities as large as one litre were tested for specific organisms and in many of the experiments with sewage B.
Aylmer, a village that discharges its sewage into the Ottawa River about six miles above the Ottawa intake.
At the Royal Testing Station in Berlin, numerous experiments on sewage chlorination were made by Kranejuhl and Kurpjuivut.
During the last decade of the twentieth century the use of bleach for the disinfection of both sewage and water received the attention of many well-known German sanitarians and many important results were obtained.
Baltimore in 1907, demonstrated in an indubitable manner the economic possibilities of sewage chlorination.
Rideal[6] was the first to note the strong germicidal power of chloramine and attributed the persistent germicidal activity of hypochlorites in sewage to the formation of chloramine and chloramine derivatives.
The most valuable contribution to the disinfection of sewage was that of Phelps,[11] who critically examined the work of previous experimenters and directed attention to the unnecessary stringent standards adopted in European practice.
The dosages necessary for crude sewage and filter effluents were indicated and also the necessary contact periods.
Chloride of lime had previously been used in the London sewage as a deodourant by Dibden in 1884 but the treatment was not successful and was abandoned in favour of other oxidisers.
Chlorinated sewageeffluents have also been known to destroy the fish life of the stream into which they were discharged.
Rideal's experiments with sewage at Guildford indicate that a similar action may occur in contact beds.
It is not too much to say that every man and woman should know the source of his summer table water and the method of sewage disposal.
The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated.
By far the best way to avoid contamination is to see to it that the sewagedischarges into the ground below the well; that is, to dig the well in such a location that the sewage drainage will be away from the well.
There is still a great deal to be learned on this subject, and it is possible that chemically treated sewage may be made a source of income to a community rather than an expense.
If sewage or slops be poured upon the ground in the neighborhood of the well, the liquid will seep through the ground and some may make its way into the pump before it has been purified by the earth.
For absolute safety the sewage discharge should be at least 75 feet from the well, and in large hotels, where there is necessarily a large quantity of sewage, the distance should be much greater.
A few cities, such as Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio, realize the need of utilizing this source of wealth, and by chemical means deodorize their sewage and change it into substances useful for agricultural and industrial purposes.
As the sewage seeps through the ground it loses its impurities, but the quantity of earth required to purify it depends upon its abundance; a small depth of soil cannot take care of an indefinite amount of sewage.
The harmless germs are victorious in every battle, and when the sewage is discharged into a stream, or used for irrigating purposes, few, if any, of the harmful germs remain.
The sewage in the liquid state is first placed in a reservoir, and at a certain temperature the germs grow very rapidly, and, of course, eat up the vegetable and animal matter until it is nearly all consumed.
You know that sewage from the kitchen contains all kinds of meat and vegetables, and the more it has fermented the stronger becomes the odor and the greater are the number of bacteria in the sewage.
Sixty-seven acres of meadow land have been laid out for irrigation and utilisation of the sewage from the prison establishment, which at times numbers upwards of one thousand persons.
When the British colonies with sturdy, independent spirit refused almost unanimously to be the receptacle for the criminalsewage of the mother country, it became of paramount importance to find other outlets of disposal.
England's social sewage was not to be shot down in Botany Bay, to be deodorised or made pure just because the authorities willed it.
The siphon is very easily cleaned, and this is a great advantage, since it permits of utilizing sewage matter for filling the flushing reservoir.
But on these sewage farms a fresh crop may be cut every fortnight, and the product is precisely that aqueous material which contributes to a lymphatic structure and a low tone of health.
Another argument for the same view is found in the fact that on certain farms irrigated by town sewage this malady has become extremely prevalent, the sewagebeing assumed to form a suitable nidus for the growth of the germ.
By a chef d'ouvre of engineering, the waters of the river had been turned backward, and made to carry away its sewage to fertilize the shores of the Illinois and the Mississippi.
No sanitary regulations were enforced and the absence of any provisions for sewage led to fearful pestilences.
The sewage of Manila is pumped three times into large sumps before it is finally dumped into the bay a mile from the city.
The Sewage Station, on the other hand, is very lively with odours.
They are known as the Oil Wharves, the Generating Station, and the Sewage Station.
