The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1929, Page 2

Mi FORKS PREFERRED FOR 1930 MEETING ONDRAINAGE TOPICS; % Organization Started by Engi-| le neer Bavone Aims to Unite | rH With National Body 1a a “WEED OF DAMS IS BROACHED | & shit | ar © R. E. Kennedy Reviews Defects « in Natural Disposal of Sew- q age Due Evaporation a oS a ‘The water and sew conference adjourned Wednesday afternoon with st Grand Forks favored for the next i; annual meeting, but without so decid- | A ing definitely. The selection sin De m -™ade some time during the year that jy Will elapse before the next session is | ir held. se Permanent organization was ef- gi fected by the ciection of E. J. Thomas, Minot waterworks and sewerage com- | it missioner, president; William Yegen. | Bismarck. vice president: and A. L. i Bavone, state sanitary engineer, sec- | yetary-treasurer During the ensuing year steps will “ be taken to increase the membership si 9nd thus obtain membership in the o1 American Waterworks association wv ‘The chief event of the afternoon | session was the visit to the city’s wa- ter plant. The Association of Com- . merce supplied cars and the 35 dele- gates went out to the pumping plant as a body and viewed it and had its operations explained by Superintend- ent Doorley. It was a fine lesson for the delegates from the smaller cities, who came here for the purpose of having water plant systems illustrated through the Bismarck station. Kennedy Talks on Sewerage ‘The big final paper, as it dealt with ‘water, sewerage and watersheds, was by State Engineer R. E. Kennedy. He | * analyzed the natural off-flow of sew- ‘age as a means of disposal which the towns of the state almost without exception can utilize for a while, or | until the population attains certain vast numbers, the limit in some in- = stances being the equivalent of Chi-| cago's population. He said: “There is a tendency on the part of sanitary engineers, who view with justifiable pleasure the rapid instal- lation of sewage disposal plants, to overlook the fact that disposition of sewage by means of simple dilution; t an entirely proper, reliable, and scientific method used by the vast &t: majority of the city population of our ®t country. Its limitations are known} Cl and its applicability ascertainable by ttandard metinods of water analysis. bed Examples of Dilution vi “Sewage is about 99.9 per cent wa- Tr ter. The cf 1 per cent is the ge obnoxious part. If ordinary raw do- mestic sewage is deposited under the | tiy Water surface of a stream which will Gilute it with 40 or 50 times its volume el of oxygen-filled river water, the re- $i; Sult will be, in all probability, stable, Odorless and non-putrescible, with 15 Most of the harmful bacteria de- jy troyed. This amounts to 4 or 5 cubic} 7 fect per second per 1000 population if the volume of sewage is about 75 gallons per day per capita. About half that dilution will suffice if sep- | tie or Imhoff tanks only are con-/ structed. If a complete disposal plant | is installed it still will be very con: | venient at times to have about twice as much water in the river as is con- tributed to it by the plant. “In the matter of water supply,; Fargo used about 6c. f. s. during the } months of June, July, and August. Very evidently their sewage disposal re [Weather Report m | Weather Report e ——$———-@ Temperature at 7 a.m. . Highest yesterday Jawest last ni Frecipitation to est wind vel GENERAL RE STATIONS— 16. 355853 i | | North Pi: ny Neb., cli lahoma City, Ok., clr clear. | i i WEATHER FORECAST | For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly a tonight and Friday, Cooler Fri- Mor North Dakota: Mostly fair to- and Fi ‘riday. Warmer tonight cooler Friday. " High pressure, mpanied by 1 weather, covers the plains tates and Mississippi valley. while oe} o reassure area, centered over ; tern Rocky mountain warmer er oar itation occurred weather. preva: int weal rv prevails Rocky 1m aly 34 | 1088 is 13 inches, but the net annual average | Evaporation may be assumed to be 31 | inches and outflow about 3 inches, | making a total average annual loss | H of 34 inches, or a net annual loss of | not Commissioner | OUT OUR WAY /T'LL Stiow YOU HOw T' MAKE ‘ER PoP —| OFF, GOIN VP THIS WOOSTER HILL. S100 Jus’ SIT OP THERE Biocns THAT AN WATCH Tid AN’ DONT Move AHROTILE OR NOT Swe DOA PHAN) THE THRONE -' + problem is much nearer a piace where | they must attend to it than their wa- ter supply problem. “There are three complete sewage disposal plants in the state. One is at Minot and two at Jamestown, on: of which is for the State hospital. | All these plants had trouble this sum- mer. One of the primary reasons was because of insufficient dilutin: water in the stream. The Minot piant on September 10 was discharging 3 c. f. s. into the stream whose flow | above the plant was only 06 c. f. s. The two Jamestown plants on Sep- tember 18 were discharging 0.6 c. {. s. into the stream and were being mixed with 0.9 c. f. s. of river water which is 1%: dilutions. Yet it was far from | satisfactory, although not so filthy as | the Mouse river below Minot. Heavy | chlorination is the only solution un- less stored water is available. “The minimum tlow of the Mis- souri river at Bismarck this sum- mer was measured and found to be 10,600 c. f. s. or enough water theo- retically to dispose of the raw sew- age from about two million people. The Chicago drainage canal is now} carrying that amount, as I recall it There, incidentally. is a classic illus- tration of where disposal by dilution has failed. It was originally designed on the basis of 3.3 cubic feet per sec- ond per 1000, but the excessive indus- trial wastes have entirely over-taxed it. The war department is now forc- ing Chicago to partial treatment. | “We have an acute problem of | that nature arising at West Fargo. | The packing plant and creamery | wastes from the Armour company's plant are making an open sewer of the Sheyenne river. This together with | Fargo's sewage puts a heavy load, I! am told, on the filtration plant at | Grand Forks. | Stored Waters | “When an unregulated river supply | approaches exhaustion the next step is storage of the surplus run-off. To| have a stable perennial lake or reser- | voir four factors must be in equilib- | rium. ‘The inflow from the water- | shed plus the rainfall onto the lake's surface must equal the evaporation from off the lake's surface plus the | outflow. Deep percolation is assumed | to be negligible. | “Most of our natural lakes and res- ervoir sites are not so favorably lo-| cated. Devils Lake has about 18 inches of rain contributed to its surface annually, but it loses, say, 31 inches in evaporation. Then the net annual | fall in the water surface has been only 5 inches over a 26-year period. Then the difference, or 8 inches of water over its area, must. come from the contributing watershed. “On a natural lake which is so sit- uated that evaporation exceeds con- tributions of inflow and rain to any extent, the only absolute solution is to annex more watershed if possible. A dam will only stave off the evil day, and make the times when the lake goes dry farther apart. “The upper Des Lacs at Kenmare is an illustration. It has steep sides, so} its surface area does not greatly | change. Watershed inflow contributes | over @ long period of years about 10) inches over the area of the lake; rain- | fall adds 16 inches, making a total annual addition of 26 inches. | a ‘water depth is about 100 inches, then i the lake should go dry or get very low once every 12 years by 8. would be mainly | . Then the net loss would | amount to, say, 5 inches a year. The lake would then go dry, or nearly so, | ‘average of once in only about 20 years, subject, of course, to wide variation from the average. “Local reservoir storage can be used. to advantage in the sewage problem in everal places over the state. In the ‘urule mountains, Oak creek can be evived and used to dilute and dis- Pose of the tank effluent for the city of Bottineau. Willow creek can be stored and aid materially in the solu- tion of the sewage problem for the anitarium at Dunseith. The Arrow- wood dam on the James river would make that a live stream and complete the solution of the sewer problem at Jamestown. These projects are being promoted now primarily for recrea- tional and resort reasons. The Shey- enne river's reservoir possibilities at now being studied by this depar' ment.” Russian Forces Retire After Extensive Raids Tokyo, Oct. 17—(#)—Russian forces apparently have withdrawn from cen- tral Manchuria after one of the most extensive raids in the history of the present Soviet-Chinese conflict. Rengo dispatches from Harbin, Manchuria, today said Soviet troops had retired to the Russian frontier after penetrating more than 100 miles inland along the Sungari river to near Ilan (Sansing) and Fuegdin (also Fuchin), Shen Hung-Lieh, commanding Chinese Sungari river forces, sent the following communique to Harbin: “The Russian invading forces con- isted of seven/gunboats and 12 air- planes. Sovict marines looted the grana at Linkiang-Hsien before withdrawing. We are maintaining a vigilant watch to prevent repetition of the invasion.” This raiding the Soviet commanders are expected to justify as reprisal for Chinese attacks on Soviet navigation in the region of the Sungari and Amur rivers confluence. Remoteness of the district,explained the slowness of the report: More than 5,000,000 yards of cotton cloth are imported into the United States every month. There are more than 700000 pri- vately owner cars on British railways. Strictly Personal these newest WahLEversharp PERSONAL- POINT Fountain Pens The point that ex actly suits your write ing stroke and the holder that exactly suits yor taste can be selected sepa- rately and perma nently combined— by us—you see us do it, dS See Them Now ALL RIGHT, “TOM ~ JAMES —L WONT THING: Tet You TELL ME- By Williams | UP - MISTER TR Willams MOMENTS WE'D LIKE,TO LIVE OVER- ©1008 oF nea senwece. me. M'KENZIE 10 SHOW FARM PRODUCTS IN to Agricultural Display at Alexander Shafer, N. D., Oct. 17.—The ninth | annual McKenzie county corn and po- tota show, to be held at Alexander, | Friday and Saturday, promises to be the best and biggest show in its his- tory. Besides a long list of premiums for potatoes and corn a-large num- | ber of prizes are offered for wheat, | flax, alfalfa, sweet clover seed and all ; Classes of vegetables. Four Homemaker's clubs and two girls’ clothing clubs will have booths set up demonstrating their last year's | work. The sheaf exhibits of the McKenzie county booth, which received first award for the display at the Sidney fair last month, will be On display both days of the show. | George F. Will, manager of Oscar | Will & Co., Bismarck, and D. E. Wil- lard. agricultural development agent, Great Northery railway, St. Paul, will | be the main speakers. A potato grad- {ing demonstration under the new state potato shipping point inspection | law will be given by R. C. Hastings, | chief potato grading inspector, Fargo, jon both days of the show. W. 8. | Couey. e field inspector, will ex- | piain regulations in the state certification laws. Kathleen A. Aus- | tin, assistant county agent, Williston, who is to judge the Homemakers’ and girls’ club booths, will also give a talk on club work. Saturday 4-H Club Day Saturday will be 4-H club day. All the members of 4-H clubs in McKen- ANNUAL EXHBMON Friday and Saturday Given Over THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1920 ‘Heads New Water and Sewerage Conference zie county have been \\specially in- vited to attend, as the county commis- sioners want to take this opportunity to meet with them and io present a 4-H club pin to all the members who have completed the first year of club work. Members who have not done work to the satisfaction of their local leaders, or whose record book is ae completed, will not receive this Pi The football game between the Alexander and Williston high schools will be part of the afternoon pro- gram on Saturday. The Atnegard band will provide musical envertain- ment on Saturday. SCHOOL BOARD SCANS DBLINQUENT TAXES Joint Informal Session With City Commission Is Held and Dinner Served Delinquent taxes and safety around the school locations were topics con- commission session at the high school, Tuesday evening. The meeting was preceded by a dinner in the sewing room of the economics department of the school. The board then adjourned to the superintendent's office, where the de- linquent tax lists were gone over. There also was discussion of assess- ments on a comparative basis. In- equalities were seen in some of these. Owing to reckless driving, the mat- ter of safety around the schools was taken up. Recently some of the chil- dren at the Moore school were struck during intermission. It was sug- gested by the school board that there should be a patrol on in the vicinity of the schools at these periods, so that both car drivers and children could be kept from recklessness. sidered by the school board and city | jointly in an informal | N. PIS CONVINCED HS, FUND IS LEGAL Conference Held Here Over $75,000 Surplus Held Back for New Building The special high school building fund of $75,000 was the subject of a conference here Wednesday, between members of the local school adminis- tration and M. T. Sanders, tax com- missioner of the Northern Pacific, and F. W. Push, a member of the N. tax office staff. The decision mu- tually reached was that the fund was perfectly proper and legal and the road will take no action as an in- terested taxpayer. The conference was the outcome of a visit here by Push, who investi- gated the existence of the special fund and had doubts as to its legal- ity. The school board had the word of the state attorney general's office that the fund of $75,000 was legally set aside in the last four years out of surplus funds at the end of each year, A budget law now regulates school levies and expenditures. For fear the road might challenge the legality of the fund on insufficient information, Superintendent H. O. Saxvik sent a statement on the school Gistrict finances to the St. Paul of- fices of the Northern Pacific. The re- sult was the visit here, Wednesday, of the two tax officials. They met mem- bers of the board in the office of Ed. Cox, of the board, and went over the | situation fully. The railroad officials were shown that the moncy is on deposit at inter- est and that when, a few years hence, the board must build a new high school, the money will obviate the is- sue of at least $75.000 of the expense in bonds. That will in 20 years save $75,000 interest—in other words the board will spend $75,000 at the out- set instead of spending $150,000 over @ period of 20 years, Paramount Is Making Moving Pictures of Lehigh Briquet Plan: Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 17.—Moving pictures are being taken of the Le- oes Briquetting plant here by the mount people. These will show the complete manufacture of bri- Quettes from the mining of t) lignite to the finished fuel preduct. Where actual photographs of the workings of the plant are impossible, artists are filling in with sketches, making @ complete story of the industry in Pp, | animated pictures, Another interest at the plant this week was the visit Sea Fieldner, chief of the United States bureau of mines at Washington, D. C., who was here following up in- quiries from Secretary of the In- terior Wilbur as to the adaptability of such a plant to Alaska and the government railroad fueling there. Announcements here are that the local plant will have three additional carbonization units added to the single one now in operation by spring with an output of over 500 tons of lig- nite briquettes daily. Within a year, offictals say, the output of the Gehigh plant will be 1,000 tons daily, besides the by-prod- uct oils. This isto be accomplished by the building of six carbonizers. Eighty-two men are employed at the Lehigh plant now and w'thin a year the pay roll will carry between three and four hundred, it is said, VERY FEW CITIZENS Rome.—The Vatican, said to be the smallest state in the world, numbers only 523 citizens. Despite its small- ness, @ severe fine is prescribed for tariff violators. Importing and ex- porting is so valuable that a fine of $800 and imprisonment up to three years is levied for infringement of the laws, No More “Iron Maidens’’! 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