Show Utah Lake He Health l lih h Menace Cited Telegram teased Leased Wire Ire PROVO PROVO Sewage Sewage pollution of Ut Utah h lal lake e has reached such serious proportions that th the lake is a menace to health and its recreational recreational i. i advantages nr are minimized according to a report which had been wi with the Provo city commission The report was was prepared by Dr Thomas L. L lA MarUn Martin chairman and Dean A. A Anderson Anderson member of ot the health a and l sanitation division of the thc Provo city planning commission commis commis- sion aba and was based on bacteriological ical leal tests conducted in the lake from Goshen to the Jordan river Immediate te action by the P city co commission In in hiring engineers engi engi- n ers to begin begh planning a new sewage disposal plant and in setting setting set set- ting ing ingup up means to finance the new sewage s plant plant- was suggested Two of ot the areas arcas found to bethe be the most polluted were Provo bay a thumb of the lake reaching toward Provo and the tho place into which Provo sewage Is emptied ls at present and that part of the lake just west of the Geneva steel plant which test teat showed a very high b bacterial count and to be highly polluted Existence of ot a very definite channel through which the highly polluted poll water of ot the Provo bay moves to the Jordan outlet was confirmed to aerial photographs photographs' photo photo- graphs graphs' I r i i 1 |