Excerpt from American Sewerage Practice, Vol. 3: Disposal of Sewage The purpose of this volume is twofold: first, to explain in simple, non-technical language the nature of sewage and the changes that take place in it when it is subject to different Conditions, and second, to describe the structures designed to produce these various conditions, in order that the character of sewage may be changed to the desired extent before it finds its way into some body of water. The first purpose is carried out in Chapters I to VI inclusive. The remainder of the volume is intended primarily for designing engineers and Operators of such plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.