Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 5

THE EVEN Ld | f b e in the river. The i Creek, Upper Potomac and the Ana- | of such vid . whether t | intercept this raw sewage. way for some time past, but there re- mains a considerable amount of pipe to_be laid While these interceptors will relieve the objectionable condition in the conceded by sani- | waters immediately contiguous to the water for bathing pur-|city, the Sewer Department still will should be of a sanitary quality | need a large disposal plant, to be lo- |gre:al enouzh or sufficlently wide- ’ spread to render the water unsafe for hing " | Failed in Test. IN SPITE OF CRASH o - the river in this slr‘euh, On the Dis-| tarians that trict side there are® three storm sew-| pos SAYS U. S. REPORT (Continued from First Page.) Plan ers, which in time of rain may almost equal to that used for general |cated near Blue Plains, to treat the s for Commercial Use domestic sewage, discharging domestic purposes. There have heen |raw sewage before it is finally disposed 5 above Key Bridge. | proposed by the Association of State |of in the lower Potomac, 3 of Zeppelins Unaltered setween Key Bridze and the rail-| Sanitary Engineers certain somewhat | . “The practice of discharging raw road bridge Rock Creek discharges|arbitrary stundards for the sanitary|sewage into the Potomac River is be- by Wreck from the District side. This stream | quality of water in bathing pools at |coming a greater menace to the health $ receives domestic sewage from a st the time such pools are,in use. ObVi-(of the community each year,” sald sewer about 2,000 feet ahove its mouth. | ously, river water used for bathing | Mr. Gordon in his report, “and the Into it discharges also should oximately with 'need of some preliminary treatment Ry the Associated Press sewers, which in times these stands Such of these stand- |of such sewage more evident.” BOSTON, September 4. Fred S ards as apply carry domestic sewer to the protection from | Mr. Gordon also told the city heads Hardenty, consulting engineer of the such gewers discharge directly transmission are briefly as|ihe necessity for increased appropria- Airways Corporation of, America. the river in this section. follows: \ tions for service sewers cannot he too which recently sought froth President Coolidge use of one of the Nation's ‘(1) Not more than 10 per cent of | strongly urged. Plant Re! the samples of water over a consid. | 1 Receives se. dirigibles for commercial uses, stated | “On the Virginia side three sewers|erable period shall contain more than | Pollution Varies. tonight “the unfortunate and deplora- | discharge directly and a small sewered | 100 hacteria per cubic centimeter, and | . Fyom this it will be seen that not ble accident to the Shenandoah does |suburban area indirectly into Little | no single sample shall contain more | ooty does vittually all sewer refuse not alter our confidence in the future ' River. so-called, which s a channel (han 200 bacteria per cubic centimeter | from this city eventually find its way of commercial aviation or change our | of the Potomac lving between the Vir- as determined by the agar count|inte the Potomae either through plans.” ginia shore and Analostan and Colum-| method af 37 degrees centigrade for | sawers or teibutaries. bat that the Mr. Hardenty said that the system |bia Islands. The Chesapeake and Ohio | 2§ hou | Sefune: trom evary town in Maryland of meteorolog observation advocat- | Canal di es through the tail-f “(2) Not more than 40 per cent of |and Virginia along its entire length is ed by Senator Bingham of Connecti- [races of several industrial plants into| the samples collected on the same day | emptied into its water and flows on cut to President Coolidge recently as | this section of t iver. nor more than ) per cent of samples | down past Washington. « 2 measure to foster aviation has an| “Between the Railroad Bridge and | collected on different dnvs shall show | e h ey L On. lle.” the re- example in point in the tragedy of the | the junction of the Potomac an a- | colon bacilll by the partially confirm- | port continued. “was about as free Shenandoah. He contended that the |COstia Rivers only one sm ed test method in 10 cublc centimeters | from sewage contamination, at the airship had demonstrated its ability [from Potomac Park. Is known to of water, time of this study as it ever is. Yet to weather ordinary storms and, with |cha It empties into “swash chan- "Tgese may be approximately inter- | even so, it could hardly be considere< | a forewarning of the ap nd ex- | wcalled, a small channel sep-| preted as allowing 037 colen bacilli| safe for bathing at this point. It con- tent of the line storm, micht have es. | arated at low water from the main |per cubic centimeter and 200 fotal | tained about 100 times the permissible caped its fate. :_’I'a"m'ly h\la)mud l“fl \(‘--'\']hm:\“‘" bacteria per cubic centimeter. number of colon bacilli allowed by 2 < hannel, which empties into the Ana- |~ “By comparison with these stand- |the standard of sanitary quality. Will Study Cause. costia at its junction with the Poto- | o S L s the approximate al- rom a study of the data found it B 10 Asmiang o <. - mac. receives the discharge of 16| jowable bacterial content of the water, | is evident that the pollution of the AKRON, Ohio, September storm sewers, wheih may v domes- | it can be shown by a study of the bac | Potomac at Great Falls is subject to perts of the Goodyear Tire a t ewage, in time of rain. erial content of the water in the river hat at no place during the period in question did it even remotely comply wide variations, generally being lowest at times of low flow, and that during the period of this investigation both he t he Anacostia River. in addition | 10 carrying the sewage of several cities Co., who have been work zible research since the ought the German Zeppelin patents, |in Maryland, recevies the discharge of | with the requirements for & sanitatily | the belbsdlon and. the discharge were e e of the six sanitary sewers (one of them gufe water. It is probable that for no | low. It is also evident that at no time collapse of the » feet 4 inches in diameter and an-|considerable period of time during the | could it be considered free enough The accident of the Shenandoah |other 7 feet by 6 feet square) within | Summer months of any-vear would It |from pollution to make It. sate. for seems to have been the result « the District. Twenty-eight storm seW: | comply with such standards hathers.’ A aulty construction which ¢ ers o ch at times -may carry Some unders 5 of just how stand up under the storm strees.” said | domestic sewag: ge into the Interceptors Needed. M h,fl,’,";_r ',’,‘",m,"w,,.{,_ R ond 1 F. K. Espenhain. vice president of the | Anacostia housand five hun- | The steadily increasing menace of | MANY basterla the experth ©und 4n Goodyear company and a chief of the | dred feet helow the entrance of the emptyi aw sewage into the Poto- | Phe . lar pl . . 4 dver water at various popular places Zeppelin branch Anacostia is the main sewer outfall mac is st i B don Pty bbb e 38 o e Hs, with Capt A. Lehman and | for the District. This is about a mile | sanitary engineer of the' District, in | —-Places (hat are even now hein Dr. Karl Arnste ho'came to Good- | above the lower limit of the District. | his annual report for the last fiscal | Used by the best swimmersomight Y vear from the German Zeppelin com "With_these numerous continuous | vear. This condition has heen cited | Prove interesting, and the following pany, left for Caldwell 1o asgist the | or occasional discharges of sewage | by the engineer for a number of years. | fiEres are quoted verbatim from the | Navy experts in studying the canses | into the river, it is to e expected There are now under construction | Pblic Health Se e . of the wreck. that evidences' of it would at times three large interceptors—the Rock Where mentioned, the il skl 4 W/zy MacMillan Yook rigidair | {o the Prozen Arclic~ WHEN MCcMILLAN sailed for the unexplored Arctic his boat was equipped with a Frigidaire Electric Re~ frigerator. Whether it is 2 hundred degrees above zero, or fifty below outside, the temperature in Frigidaire remains the same, ideal for t‘he preservation of food. The crew of the Bowdoin will have fresh vegetables and fruit as long as the supply holds out. It will not spoil, it will not freeze. In winter as well as summer your home needs electric refrigeration. 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WASHINGTON, D: C average numbers from specimens of water obtained at different hours of the same day. Bacteria Figures. Chain Bridge, dubic centimeter; railroad bridge, 2,900; junction costia River, one time, 36,000; just below this junc- tion of the rivers, other samples dis- | of closed River, average, 4,333 high test, 16,- for 1925. cluded: “From the various tables and charts of the examinations of water at these various locations it would appear that at Great Falls the run is fairly low in pollution; that from Chain Bridge to Railroad Bridge it was subject at times to considerable pollution, and | that below the Railroad Bridge it was | grossly polluted. | “At no place within the limits of the District could it be considered safe | for bathing. “The degree of widely during The maximum pollution at Chain and Key Bridges occurred on July 24; also on this day the total bacteria counts both on agar and gelatin were high Great dilutions of water at this point were colon bacilli increased at this polluted water was passing down the river on that day. tide was full the maximum was at Benning road. tide was low it was rather uniformly polluted, lower stations than at the upper ones. “Rock Creek was at all times mod- erately polluted. that the Anacostia River at all times and Rock C From_ the FRIDAY, 1,870 bacteria per Key Bridge, 1,270; at Potomac Park, f Potomac and Ana- average, 7,600, and at 95,000 bacteria; Anacostia 1914, Dalecarlia Inlet, 2,671, average summing up, the report con- pollution varied the period of study. ings Falls. Unfortunately, no | river. to show whether or not the |from this point day. Evidently some rather On July 23 Rock y polluted. July tide was in ebb, street. On tite 27th when the On the 31st. when the somewhat more so at the “The 1t is clearly evident Creek in times of even showers contribute much pol- | duced at and Warn of Danger. “The field findings alone would indi- | @ the | cate that much sewage pollution must | @ enter the river just above and within the section adjacent to the District. Bacteriologic examinations were neces. sary to prove the magnitude and dis tribution of this pollution in the river. evidence .report clearly shows: (1) That the river is polluted at all times with sewage | [ to a degree much greater than could be considered as allowable without a of contracting sewage-borne by SEPTEMBER 4, lution to the river. expected in view sanitary and storm sewers discharging | o into those tributaries of the Potomac. “In order to show what changes, if any, might have occurred in the past 12 years'in the pollution of the lower section of the river under study, a table was prepared from data in Hyglenic Laboratory Bulletin No. 104, showing the monthly average results bacterlological water from January, of the Potomac at Point, which is at the junction of the Anacostla. “It {s difficult to compare the find ings of the two years, difference In river flow. as the larger discharge of 1913 would tend to flush away and dilute the pollution intro that time. colon bacilli figure is about four times greater than the September, 1013, fig- | ure, and the river discharge was about the same in these months. therefore, that there was more pollu- tion in 1925 than in 1913, which would be expected as the result of the growth of the District and the extension of domestic sewers, ““The conditions observed in the field | simply explain the bacteriological find- serve to potential dangers of age-horne diseases by bathers in the In numerous instances imme- diately outside small ponded or only slightly moving in the then dry tributaries of the river. sewage was only awaiting a rain to send it as a concentrated volume of had been discharging an un- | pollution into the river usually large volume of water. | “Anacostia River was on the three | days examined heavi 24, when the maximum pollution was about Elev- 1925. Such would be of the numerous that this ginia and the District of Columbl up to Long Bridge there is mass p examinations of 1913, to May, G1esboro | yewer outfall; Bridge there is below this point. during periods e o i | low run discharge, although increase of pollution, mer months, probably be used for bathing.” But the 1925 Ammonia or bicarbonate of so« emphasize the contracting sew- the District sewers was sewage observed S on fuel price: to be seen, but This modernize your heating plant at once, so you'll waste no coal, whatever, this Wintes Celbert REAL SATISFACTION. Maurice J. 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