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Main Title

Contributions from the Sanitary Research Laboratory and Sewage Experiment Station. Volume X. Studies on the Digestion of a Sewage-Filter Efluent by a Small and Otherwise Unpolluted Stream.

Author

Weston, Robert Spurr ; Turner., C. E. ;

CORP Author

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge

Year Published

1917

Stock Number

PB-260 051

Additional Subjects

Sewage flow rate ; Sewage bacteria ; Sewage disposal ; Sewage treatment effluent ; Water pollution ; Stream flow ; Stream pollution ; Waste disposal ;

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Additional Info	Location	Last Modified	Checkout Status
NTIS	PB-260 051	Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown.		07/26/2022

Collation

50p

Abstract

Results are presented of a 2-year study to determine to what extent a stream, lake, or estuary will receive and digest the effluents from sewage purification plants. Emphasis is on the biological aspects. Data indicates that slowly moving water is able to digest and highly purify effluents in large volume with the first three-fourths of a mile. The process of digestion is almost wholly biological and is extremely sensitive to conditions such as temperature, rainfall, and the amount and character of plant and animal life.

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