Sewage and sewerage of farm homes [1922]

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PLANS AND ADVICE.

SEWAGE, SEWERS, AND SEWERAGE DEFINED.

NATURE AND QUANTITY OF SEWAGE.

SEWAGE-BORNE DISEASES AND THEIR AVOIDANCE.

HOW SEWAGE DECOMPOSES.

IMPORTANCE OF AIR IN TREATMENT OF SEWAGE.

PRACTICAL UTILITIES.

KITCHEN-SINK DRAINAGE.

CESSPOOLS.

SEPTIC TANKS.

GREASE TRAPS.

GENERAL PROCEDURE.

Farmers' Bulletin No. 1227
United States Department of Agriculture

SEWAGE and
SEWERAGE
of FARM
HOMES

DISPOSAL OF FARM SEWAGE in a clean manner is always an important problem. The aims of this bulletin are twofold: (1) To emphasize basic principles of sanitation; (2) to give directions for constructing and operating home sewerage works that shall be simple, serviceable, and safe.

Care in operating is absolutely necessary. No installation will run itself. Continued neglect ends in failure of even the best designed, best built plants. If the householder is to build and neglect, he might as well save expense and continue the earlier practice.


Contribution from the Bureau of Public Roads
THOS. H. MacDONALD, Chief

Washington, D. C. January, 1922

George M. Warren,

Hydraulic Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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