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Show Officials Urge Proper Disposal of Sewage as City Health Protection s neighbor who is connected to the sewer. He has several hundred friends to help him bear his financial finan-cial burden. Many areas in Springville Spring-ville have high water tables which have contributed untold trouble to the business of waste disposal and made these areas almost unusable as building sites. Ditches and roadways road-ways take the sewage which cannot can-not be forced into this water-coaked water-coaked ground. In order to protect our health and standard of living, individual sewage disposal as well as disposal from communities must be done according to accepted standards. Over a perio.d of years, the only satisfactory answers are: for the individual, connection to a public sewer; for the community, sewage treatment designed for the needs of the community. Springville City officials have taken the initial steps. in planning to correct the present conditions. As a citizen, you should do your part to get acquainted with these plans and to do what you can to assist them in their planning and carrying out your program of improvement. im-provement. Future articles will explain ex-plain some aspects of these plans. Your city oficials will be happy to discuss them with you and answer any questions you may have. Editor's Note: The following article is the second In a series submitted by health officialsi to bring the sewage problem faced by Springville home owners' and the city as a whole, to the attention atten-tion of all. Disposal of sewage is a problem, prob-lem, no matter how you look at it. You may face the problem as a home owner, as a city father, or as John Q. Public, tax payer. But whatever your position you'll face it! However, don't let it affect your blood pressure or interfere with your sleep the same ' situation has been faced, and conquered by million of other people. As a matter of fact, when sewage treatment plants now under un-der construction in Utah are placed in operation, 125,000 people in our own state can feel that they have met the skeletons from their closets, and have successfully laid them to rest where they belong. These thousands of people are served by plants which include primary pri-mary and secondary treatment facilities. fac-ilities. Eleven communitites (Nephi, Dragerton, Murray, Heber City, Sunnyside, American Fork, South Salt Lake, Kearns, Midvale, Salt Lake Suburban, and Provo) have completed treatment plants (including (in-cluding secondary treatment) or are now under construction. Some have been in operation from 6 to 9 years. If you don't enter this picture as a home owner connected to a sewer, sew-er, you can expect to have to soive your problems alone and at the most inconvenient time. (The plumbing never seems to stop up unless you have a house full of guests.) If your waste must be disposed into the ground where the water table is high or where the soil is tight, your solution will be more dificult than that of your |
