THE TREATMENT OF SEWAGE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10882, 27 June 1899, Page 3

THE TREATMENT OF SEWAGE.

At the meefiaogs'of-'tlie" Sydenham/ St. / Albans, and Linwood Borough CouacUe last naight, a letter vraa read from Mr J. El; - Brunt, of Linwood, enclosing ■an article from an English paper entitled, "A Problem ■ Solved," which dealt with the invention of > tJ*e C% Surveyor of Exeter in- dealing with . the sewage of tfcat town. The article stated J that the crude sewage flows into.an rdfi tight and light-tight tank, where it remains about two hours,-end-during that time as" • i dissolved into liquid, after which the .liquid passes automatically into a concrete- lake, the bed of which is covered with, small ooko or "breeze." Thence,' "purer than die river into which it merges,* it flows into the river, running 'beside a meadow on the outskirts of Exetev. The system has "been Iα operation for two years, is regarded as having passed its experimental stage, and is patented, bat it is presuinbd ti&b "the authorities toe Hkely to look upon .the payment of a royalty as a, highly satks&wtory method of getting rid of the nightmare of sewage treatment." Mr Brunt asked that a small committee should be set up, with a view of acting with otibter local bodies, aad«from this representative - body application be made to the inventor for all the necessary details, so thai the scheme might be gone into, and, if found satisfactory, given a trial. , The Sydenham Council appointed Crs. Jacques, Day and Sim, wi&'tihe Mayor, a committee to confer and rsport, and Or. ! Day mentioned that when be visited England after next Christmas he would make it Ilia business to "look into the scheme." The Linwood Council appointed Crs. Brunt and Pearce a committee, to confer > with other local bodies, to take the whole question of the disposal of sewage, etc., into consideration and reportThe St. Albans Council referred the letter to its Sanitary Committee.