Download or read book Report to the Director of Public Service, Akron, Ohio, on Sewage Treatment and Trade Wastes written by Harry Britton Hommon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report to the Director of Public Service, Akron, Ohio, on Sewage Treatment and Trade Wastes: October 10, 1912 According to the records of the U. S. Geological Survey covering the years 1903 to 1906 inclusive, the extreme dry weather flow of the Cuyahoga River at Independence, below Akron, is about 56 sec. Feet, or gallons in 24 hours. During such dry periods, on the basis of a required dilution of 5 cu. Ft. Per sec. Per people, the flow of the river would be sufficient to satisfactorily dilute the sewage of about population, or roughly 15 per cent. Of the present population of the city. 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.