| Show suggestions ABOUT SEWERAGE THERE THEM has been of late in connection with the efforts to produce a boom for this city a revival ot of the sewerage question this subject is momentarily under our 0 attention now in consequence of the article that app appeared dared in yesterdays days issue describing what is claimed to bo be an unmitigated nuisance emanating from the salt late lake brewery the disposal of the slops of that beer factory has been a question of considerable sid erable i importance m artance owing to the vigorous 1 protests roto ests of citizens in the southeastern south eastern section of the city against its introduction into their wells wella by the seepage process the position of the people aggrieved was well taken and steps were inaugurated to give them relief it appears however that what relieved them extended the imposition to others it seems that thai in place of the nuisance being abated it has simply beem removed from one section to another if possible the later phase promises to be more objectionable than the earlier one because of its liability to wider extension the canal on ninth south bouth street runs along the entire southwestern border of the city and the nuisance is liable to extend over its entire length westward from the point on third east street where the filth from the brewery empties into it if the citizens and author authorities ittes permit a sewage precedent to be established there is danger of others taking advantage of it until the viaduct in question is made a pretty general depository tory for filth in that case the noisome exudations from the sluggish stream would fill the air and be swept over the entire city by every soli southern thern zephyr the proper proper way wa would be to nip the nuisance in the bud ud by taking steps to have it forthwith abated H this be not done the cause of complaint will soon be much greater than now when the water in the canal diminishes to proportions next door to nothing then will the filth poured into it be lit in a practically eally undiluted form and consequently more noisome we e have always held beldin L reference to sewerage that the RAW initial consideration is and must be the disposal of the sewage to shout a demand for the sanitary convenience without giving thought to that end is the acme of of fo folly ul why not run it into the thedor sor daar danill some people exclaim let it be remembered that to let inflow it flow into that or any other stream does not annihilate the substance it merely deposits it somewhere the effect of tb this 9 filth filthy concentration without further disposal disposal is a leading question we hold then that the first investigation and ate steps should be in the direction of a repository oll and final disposition when these two points are satisfactorily settled the foundation for sewerage is laid jn in considering the subject it should always be kept kepto in mind that one class of citizens hunot has not the constitutional right to commit a nuisance upon r t ther class it wakes no matet material ial difference whether the wrong be perpetrated by filling a mans pockets with filth or forcing forcin Chim him to take it into his estem al in fluer finer particles by compelling ham him to breathe it it is all very well to theorize on the subject but before any actual steps are taken the matter should be subjected to experiment until there has been some practical demonstration in relation to depositing and final disposition of sewage from this city sewer 0 age must be hild held in abeyance abey amee some tove have thought that the best plan would be for the corporation to purchase a piece of land of sufficient proportions and suitable location for the reception of the ithe product use ashes and dry earth for the absorption of the liquid portion and the prodie production of at least partial deodorization the final work would be to cart it away to some proper place to be found in the surrounding mountains there is a degree of feasibility about this anyway it could be experimented upon when sewerage is introduced into Salt lake city it will necessarily have to be by piecemeal in consequence its benefits would woul d be limited to the localities cali ties where it might be established this being the case the matter ok of meeting the outlay involved would not necessarily essa rily have to be a public burden it is a matter that could conid very properly be provided tor for by local taxation the bone benefits bonewits lits derived being strictly concentrated and special the fact that a system of sewerage for the city as a whole cannot be consistently thought of for a long time to come gives great potency to th the e theory of local liability for the expenditure involved in a its introduction and gradual spread espred in the meantime there should be no side or private privileges by which one person or party can commit a sewage nuisance upon his neighbors |
