The sewage problem, a review of the evidence collected by the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal.

  • Martin, Arthur J. (Arthur John), 1864-
Date:
1905
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    Efficiency of Land Treatment—contimied. isolated cases, no doubt the best results can be tbereby gained from a purification point of view. [W. H. Wilson, 769*.] As a rule, broad irrigation is fairly successful in the West Eiding, because it has usually been adopted in quite rural districts, where the refuse is purely domestic. In the places where it has failed it has been due chiefly to the nature of the land. [Dr. Wilson, 1342.] (Major-Gen. Carey): If sewage can be applied to a suflicient area of suitable land, do you consider that that is the best and most satisfactory means of dealing with it ?— Yes. [Crimp, 1761.] The two main methods in use are, first, land filtration, including broad filtration (sewage farms); and in the second place, artificial filtration. With regard to the first method there is no doubt that, where the conditions are suitable, and where the process is efficiently/ carried out, the results are satisfactory. I may say that on the Mersey and Irwell watershed we have evidence of this. [Eoscoe, 3511.] If the land can be obtained in quantity sufficient, if it is suitable, because it must be suitable as well as in area sufficient; and if the rainfall in the neighbourhood is not very serious, I think such filtration is very excellent. [3711.] The best efiiuents I have submitted to me for analysis are after treatment by land, and these carry the largest amount of suspended matter. [Scudder, 5972.] I look upon land treatment as quite out and out the best thing to do with inland sewage, if you can have plenty of land. [Strachan, 7626.] We presented a report on the efiiuents from the sewage farms in England to the Local Government Board, showing that land filtration did give you a standard efiluent. [Scudder, 6080.] If the soU is perfect, and the management good, it does; but if the son is not good and the management not good, it will not do?—On clay soil, of course, you cannot do it; you want suitable filtering soil. [6081.] The treatment of sewage on suitable land is satisfactory, ))rovided the areas are properly supervised, ivhich is not ahoays found to be the case:' [Dr. WiUiams, 9819.]
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