Engineering and Contracting . ERINGAND CONTRACTING handle their sewage. The first plant visited was the En-trenchment Creek Plant, locatfed about miles south-east from the City Hall. This plant was completed June6, 1914, and was designed for a population of .50,000. Itreceives the trade wastes from the cotton manufactorieswhich are cottolene, oils and dyes. Entrenchment Creekflows about 4^2 miles to South River, and during dryweather flow the dilution with the effluent from the dis-posal plant is 1 to 2. (Attendants, one foreman, two daylaborers and one night watchman.) Proctor Creek disp
Engineering and Contracting . ERINGAND CONTRACTING handle their sewage. The first plant visited was the En-trenchment Creek Plant, locatfed about miles south-east from the City Hall. This plant was completed June6, 1914, and was designed for a population of .50,000. Itreceives the trade wastes from the cotton manufactorieswhich are cottolene, oils and dyes. Entrenchment Creekflows about 4^2 miles to South River, and during dryweather flow the dilution with the effluent from the dis-posal plant is 1 to 2. (Attendants, one foreman, two daylaborers and one night watchman.) Proctor Creek disposal plant, the second one inspected,was placed in operation on Aug. 8, 1912, and designed fora population of 30,000. It is situated on Proctor Creek, adistance of four miles northwest from the City Hall. Thetrade wastes handled by this plant are iron, gas manufac-turing wastes and calcium oxide from the Prestolite GasCo. Proctor Creek flows about five miles from plant tothe Chattahoochee River, and its dry weather flow dilu-. Flg. 1 — Transverse Section Through Screen House of the Northwest Station of the Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago. Fig. 2—Single Unit of Screen. Fig. 3—Cutaway View of Chain Belt Traveling Water Screens at Deiray Piant of Edison liluminating Co., Detroit, Mich. by referring to the photograph of the single unit shown asFig. 2. The underlying idea of these screens is simple. Their practical application, however, rep-resents a period of development both as to their mechan-ical design and proper application extending over a periodof several years. Actual installations of this machine are shown in theillustrations. Fig. 1 shows the installation at the North-west Station of the Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago,111. The screen shown in Fig. 2 was installed at the plantof Morgan & Wright at Detroit, Mich. Fig. 3 is a cutawayview of seven traveling screens installed at the Deirayplant of the Edison Illuminating Co., Detroit, Mich. Sev-eral mach
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