Show I Speake kes ke's C Cite n fe Sew e Need eed By Will ill Jar is Attention was focused on the inadequate treatment of sewage in the majority of Utah's cities and ana towns by speakers Tuesday at the water and sewage works school at the University of Utah C. C N. N Stutz sanitary engineer for the state health department told city officials attending the conclave that there are 79 state municipalities with municipalities with a total population population population pop pop- of with with sewer Of this total 33 provide no sewage treatment Some 40 give primary treatment while only six very very small towns towns give give both primary and secondary treatment Adequate treatment includes both primary and the secondary treat treat- ment There is no treatment of any kind for the large cities of Salt Lake Lae City Ogden Provo and Logan These cities contain 81 of the states state's population population population tion Mr Stutz said Noting that 83 of the states state's population resides in the Great Salt Lake basin the health department department department de de- de- de official said the lal lake e Is the final receiving body for all drainage in the basin Much of the sewage emptying into the lake he said flows through marshes on the lakes apes edge These marshes serve as asbird asbird asbird bird refuges hunting areas and breeding grounds for muskrat and carp which arc are caught and sold commercially They are also breeding breeding- spots for mosquitoes gnats and flies water channeled to the lake is often used for irrigation purposes Mr Stutz reported In Jn some sonic cases this sewage water is diluted with fresh water in other cases it There are no instances at the present time in the Great Salt SaltI Lake Lale basin where municipal sewage sewage sewage sew sew- I age enters a public water supply See Sec Pa Page e J 1 Column 5 I Speakers 1 I Sewage Need I i Continued front from rom Page One he said However Holever in the near future water from Deer Creek I rc reservoir which receives sewage c from usher Heber will be he used in Salt Lake City Cily How great reat the danger to public health is the present system of of sewage disposal sal salIn In Utah is not readily known he said Nor has has' the effect on crops of oC sewage e waters used for irrigation been determined However lie added we must separate ourselves from our sewage sewage sew sew- w age or OJ we will keep ourselves with whatever disease is prevalent in the community Io Curriers r. r Pointing out that bathers And hunters haunters at the lake lale are exposed directly to untreated untreated- sewage e and thE that t it seems quite possible birds and insects carry sewage materia material material mate mate- rial ria from rom marshes to lo homes Mr I Stutz asserted It is evident we weare weare weare are not very well separated from fromi i our sewage Legislation to provide adequate I sewage e disposal regulation will wm willbe willbe be introduced in the ne next nett t legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture the speaker said then added But in the meantime where unsatisfactory unsatisfactory un un- un satisfactory sati conditions are known to exist plans should be prepared as soon as possible to correct the conditions i I Need for stu study and acl action on on the sewa sewage c problem in the Salt Lake Lale area was recent recently brought I to public attention by a series of I articles in the Salt Lake Tele Tele- Tele-I Tele gram Another speaker at the school Tuesday morning Grant K Borg assistant professor of oC civil engineering engineering engineering engi engi- at al the university lly explained explained ex ex- ex- ex pained the process of sewage treatment He emphasized that each city has its own peculiar problems and that a study should be made to determine exactly a aI I municipality's treatment nt n ned eds |