Excerpt from Partial Report Upon the Comprehensive Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the Entire City: Report of the Bureau of Surveys Comprising the Work at the Sewage Experiment Station at Spring Garden, Philadelphia, 1910 On July 20, 1907, His Honor, the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, John E. Reyburn, approved an ordinance of Councils entitled "An Ordinance to authorize the Department of Public Works to make investigations and report upon a comprehensive plan for the collection, purification and disposal of the sewage of the City, together with such alterations and extensions of the existing sewerage systems as may be necessary, and to make an appropriation therefor." The ordinance provides, in part, as follows: Whereas, By an Act of Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to preserve the purity of the waters of the State for the protection of the public health," approved April 22, 1905, it is provided, among other things, that "No person, corporation or municipality shall place, or permit to be placed or discharge, or permit to flow into any of the waters of the State, any sewage, except as hereinafter provided, etc." 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.