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Show - V--J j W W- a ! t iJ . V.4 J a w fci Dolsnc Mocd For Sower The State Health Board is very anxious that a Sewer System be constructed in your city and hopes for a favorable vote Saturday, Satur-day, next. We are taking the liberty of writing this letter because we feel that many of you are not acquainted with the fact that you have a bad sanitation situation existing in your city. A recent survey showed more than 70 clogged septic tanks and cesspools, many of them open and draining on the surface. This situation is bound to become increasingly worse as saturation of the underlying soil continues. Such a, situation will be exhilerated very much if there is the looked-for growth in your city because of the industrial expansion surrounding the Geneva Steel Plant. Many people are inclined to think that because they are situated on a grave! structure that their own septic tank gives them no trouble; that they are therefore free from danger of health hazards arising from bad sanitation. This is not true. Your children attend schools which are attended by children from homes where bad sanitation exists. You and your children attend movies with others, and you are constantly in the business district dist-rict and in other contacts. Germs and microbes which cause communicable diseases know no boundaries. There is existant in Pleasant Grove a situation where comunicable diseases may start and raise to epidemic proprotions. We have been advised that there is considerable resistance to this project from the owners of those homes where the sewer will not be provided at the present time for the reason that while these people pay nothing in the way of monthly service charges that they will be asked to bear their part of the general obligation bonds to be so voted. We understand that the amount of general obligation bonds voted can be retired .over a thirty year period by levy of not to exceed 4 mills. To those homes whose assessed valuation is $1000 this would mean not to exceed $4.00 per year. The State Board of Health asks you people of this city to think it over before you vote against the bond issue. $4.00 a year is a very small amount for you to pay in order to have a sewage system installed? which will clean up the unsanitary situation in the business district, the schools, the southwest industrial section, and the denser residential section. Pleasant Grove should be able afford a sewer system as well as the following towns and many others who have already installed sewers or are in the process of doing so: Nephi, American Fork, Orem, Monticello, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Duch-esne, Springville, Payson, Spanish Fork. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH By Willard West, District Sanitarian |