Sewage and sewerage of farm homes [1928]

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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

SEPTIC TANKS

GREASE TRAPS

GENERAL PROCEDURE

ISPOSAL 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.

Washington, D. C. January, 1922
Revised October, 1928

George M. Warren,

Hydraulic Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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