 | Grand Rapids (Mich.) Dept. of Public Service - 1875 - 650 páginas
...years of its existence, Mr. Kirkwood made the following statement : " It was long thought that the sewage was de"stroyed by running water, but now it is believed "by chemists to be all but indestructable there, and "to be rendered insensible and inert only by being " mixed largely — thoroughly... | |
 | 1876 - 692 páginas
...they have commenced sewage works which will in time more or less remedy the evil. It was long thought that sewage was destroyed by running water, but now...least one hundred times its volume of good water. Sewage distributed over land is appropriated like manure by the vegetation which it finds there, but,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1876 - 1060 páginas
...they have commenced sewage works which will in time more or less remedy the evil. It was long thought that sewage was destroyed by running water, but now...least one hundred times its volume of good water. Sewage distributed over land is appropriated like manure by the vegetation which it finds there, but,... | |
 | 1877 - 626 páginas
...they have commenced sewage works which will in time more or less remedy the evil. It was long thought that sewage was destroyed by running water, but now...least one hundred times its volume of good water. Sewage distributed over land is appropriated like manure by the vegetation which it finds there, but,... | |
 | William Hammond Hall - 1883 - 104 páginas
...running streams has been, " in the United States, generally neglected. * * * * " It was long thought that sewage was destroyed by running water, "but now...believed by chemists to be all but indestructible there." * " The poisons may be so largely diluted as to be beyond the read" ings of analysis, and yet they... | |
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Abingdon and Windsor still pass their sewage into the river, although they have commenced sewage works which will in time more or less remedy the evil. It was long thought that sewage was destroyed by running water, but now it is believed by chemists... 