. The sanitation of cities. st projects ever proposed by the civilengineering profession. Of such canals, the Nev/ York Barge Canal isthe most important that has been realized incompleted form. That it is to be only the firstamong others as important is confidently antici-pated. Now that New York has opened this im-mense opportunity for reducing the cost of traf-fic, others will soon follow. The sanitation of cities situated on rivers thatcan be improved to afford much larger volumesof water than at present, and on canals compar-able in size to the Chicago drainage canal can,by developing thei
. The sanitation of cities. st projects ever proposed by the civilengineering profession. Of such canals, the Nev/ York Barge Canal isthe most important that has been realized incompleted form. That it is to be only the firstamong others as important is confidently antici-pated. Now that New York has opened this im-mense opportunity for reducing the cost of traf-fic, others will soon follow. The sanitation of cities situated on rivers thatcan be improved to afford much larger volumesof water than at present, and on canals compar-able in size to the Chicago drainage canal can,by developing their waterways and making exist-ing channels deeper and wider, save much of thecost required for sewage treatment plants. Themoney saved by thus avoiding the necessity forconstructing vast sprinkling filter beds, etc., canbe applied to improvements of a more desirableand profitable kind. The New York State Barge Canal, beginningat Buffalo, will carry an ever increasing stream ofcommerce to New York and Brooklyn, and this 107 .. -ac :-= O 73 ;_ OJ rt yj ^ ^ rt oc c c o OJ .^ -J ^ OJ C z c; « J: o •n ^ rt in ^ b c Z 1- rt 2^ U-l _aj Q 1/2 ,^ ra 1- IS Qi ?TD i/i ^ rt Q C M a; ?^ XJ -^ c 0J3 -o J^ c •-?- P tu On c^ >-, -^ </) U C M OJ ^C yi O C o io8 Matcrwa^0 as a Sanitary fIDeasure will have an important effect on many local sani-tary problems. Jamaica Bay, a large but shal-low body of water within the area of the cityof New York, and adjoining the harbor, was be-coming polluted with sewage, and was negligiblein commercial value because of the high cost ofdredging, until the prospect of the traffic to beanticipated from the new barge canal made itsvalue apparent, and plans were prepared for itsextensive improvement. It was then found thatwith the newly dredged channels, required forcommerce, the sanitary problem had been muchsimplified; that biological sewage treatmentplants consisting of sprinkling filters for thetreatment of sewage entering the new channels,would no
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