SEWERAGE
Better sewerage facilities are being proposed for Chelsea, N. J., by Superintendent A. M. Jordan, of the Atlantic City Sewerage Company. He would locate at frequent intervals and lay sewage traps opening automatically, their contents being forced by compressed air (from the pumping station on Baltic avenue) to the top of the trap and then through the pipes, which would have a fall of several feet in a square, to the next trap, which, as soon as it became full, would open automatically, thus keeping the sewage constantly on the move. At the end of the system the sewage would empty into the company’s main system and be pumped to the filtering beds far out on the meadows.
The pumping station of the Atlantic City, N. J., Sewerage Company has a pumping capacity of 17,000,000 gallons of sewage daily. The recent Introduction of meters by the water company will reduce this i,ooo,oOO gallons every twenty-four hours during the summer. The company is building four new tanks, 30 feet long by 15 feet wide and 6 feet in depth. These will retain the solid matter that comes through the pipes. When full the offal will l>c removed and either buried or burned at the city crematory.
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