. The sanitation of cities. VIEW OF CITY OF CHRISTIANIA, NORWAYShowing location of screening plant, indicated by arrow the very large cost would give nothing of com-mercial value. Its condition would rapidly de-preciate in service, and in a few years call for ex-tensive repairs, and finally for reconstruction. Itwould require many acres of valuable land whichbesides first cost, would be removed permanentlyfrom industrial or home development; and largesurrounding areas would probably be renderedundesirable by the presence of the plant, whichwould cause local nuisance and depreciate prop-erty va
. The sanitation of cities. VIEW OF CITY OF CHRISTIANIA, NORWAYShowing location of screening plant, indicated by arrow the very large cost would give nothing of com-mercial value. Its condition would rapidly de-preciate in service, and in a few years call for ex-tensive repairs, and finally for reconstruction. Itwould require many acres of valuable land whichbesides first cost, would be removed permanentlyfrom industrial or home development; and largesurrounding areas would probably be renderedundesirable by the presence of the plant, whichwould cause local nuisance and depreciate prop-erty values. The canal avoided these objections. The wateravailable for dilution aflforded a satisfactorytreatment, and insured the inoffensive oxidationof sewage pollution within a few miles of the en-trance of the sewage. No valuable land was tobe taken from its natural development and tax-able value; and taxable values would be in- 103 ^be Sanitation of Cities creased, instead of diminished, by thie presenceof tiie canal, as it
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