SEPTIC TANK WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 7

SEPTIC TANK WORKS.

I. « STORM DELAYS

f- A,work which is being .watched-withj iriterost by 'residents 'of- Brooklyn' and'lsland Bay is , tho septicftank which '.is' being constructed at .phiro .Bay. Last.: week," alter finishing'' the Arduous task of ; 16 --fee't-'belbw.: tjiersurfiieo- (mostly into 1 solicit,rock), things began to \ look as'. thpiigh they would,- leap ahead, when the .'southerly'~-. came, t; Great .waves, dashed: over ; the .rocks, and-filled the excavation with water -and .a deposit /of shingle.'- This, it by Mr.-. StUrrock, tho engineer, in chargbi' will .tkke a week or ten ..days to cleitr but.-;. By- to-day -,tho water will be .pumped out, ; but the shingle cannot beidealt witli;,so quickly!- :.'-.' '■;- -:- ; '. ■'■■,.'■■ . : )Vhen .a: reporter' visited the works yesterday littlo was to-bo seen of 'tlie'.'lplan of constructions Good progress,jhowever, has-ac--1 tiially. , been mado,^most pf :-the'-', excavation' having been, finished;."while the concrete floor of tho large tank has been laid. ■.■':■'.'■:':, ■'.; / When.' completed,, the whole'"'affair will compHso,three taiiks; one, 80ft. by;soft., divided into, three -compartments','.- i\nd two detritus tanks).eacli 25ft. by.sft.., Tlie:dotritus tanks, , which, aro built side by side, so jthat they may. .1)0 used; alternatively j will serve the. purpose of.'deposit .tanks .for. intercepting'the grit. Before reaching them-the;sewerage will :pass through ' largo '•-:■ Special;'.;improvements, made in the; large tank;will enable it to ; .be cleaned but without , .'manual labour.: No ,trouble -'jyill' be' experienced",from high seas n-hbn -tho tank is complete, for. it will bpcovfred iyitlj'.'a fcrro-coiiCTP.torbof. : "■' : - •;. Already,;the.- work ,of laying the connecting mains ;is; woll in. band,, so that, ,-. wlion the jnajor construbtiori is finished (which will .ho in --about', two, months), everything ■•will be in readiness for : iise. ;■ . . ;i. . ~'-.