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Proceedings of Member AssociationsSource: Sewage Works Journal, Vol. 17, No. 5 (Sep., 1945), pp. 1028-1034Published by: Water Environment FederationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25030117 .
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The Spring Meeting of the New England Sewage Works Association was held at the Hotel Statler in Boston on Wednesday, May 2,1945. A
total of 110 members and guests attended, most of whom were residents
of the metropolitan area of Boston. President Frank L. Flood pre sided at all sessions.
Upon completion of the Secretary-Treasurer's reports and other
pertinent Association business, the following papers were presented at the morning session:
" Porous Tube Air Diffusers" by Frank C. Roe, The Carborundum Company, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
"Sewage Treatment Operation Charts" by W. Vincent Barry, City Engineer, New Haven, Conn.
"Small Sludge Elutriation Plants" by Albert L. Genter, Consulting Engineer, Baltimore, Md.
Immediately after the luncheon served in the Salle Moderne Room of the Hotel Statler, an address was given by Mr. Charles W. Sherman, previously a partner of Metcalf and Eddy, Consulting. Engineers. Mr. Sherman spoke on "The Siege of Boston (1775-76)."
The technical session of the afternoon consisted of a symposium on "Treatment and Disposal of Digestion Tank Supernatant Liquor" with a paper by L. L. Langford, Eastern Sales Manager of the Pacific Flush Tank Company, New York City, and discussions by L. H. Cham berlain, American Well Works, New York City, Anthony J. Fischer, The Dorr Company, New York City, and Joseph Doman, Sanitary Engineer, Greenwich Department of Public Works, Greenwich, Con necticut.
LeRoy W. Van Kleeck, Secretary
NEW YORK STATE SEWAGE WORKS ASSOCIATION
Seventeenth Annual Meeting
New York, New York, January 19, 1945
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the N*Y.S.S.W.A. was held in New York City on January 19,1945, with headquarters at the Pennsyl
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vania Hotel. About 250 members and guests were registered. The
meeting was very well attended and proved to be one of the best and
largest of our annual meetings, in spite of difficult travel conditions and the difficult room situation at hotels.
On January 18 members of the Association were guests of the Sani
tary Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which held its meeting in the Hotel Commodore. The technical pro gram included the following papers :
Depletion and Recharge of Ground Water Supplies, by Charles L. McGuinness.
Postwar Planning in the Sanitary Engineering Field, by E. Sher man Chase.
Water Supply at the Battle Front, by Capt. W. H. Smith, U.S.N. Evaluation of Sewage Works Data, by William L. Havens.
Characteristics and Disposal of Wastes from the Copolymer Syn thetic Rubber Industry, by George E. Barnes and M. M. Braidech.
The Future of American Engineers in Latin America, by John P.
Hogan.
The executive committee of the N.Y.S.S.W.A. met on the evening of
January 18. The meeting was presided over by W. H. Larkin, Presi dent of the Association. George E. Symons of New York City and As sociate Editor of Water Works and Sewerage was elected President for the year 1945 and Uhl T. Mann, Superintendent of the Ley Creek sewage treatment plant at Syracuse, was elected Vice President. Ed
ward J. Smith (Niagara Falls) was elected Director to. serve on the Board of Control of the Federation of Sewage Works Associations for a term of three years beginning at the close of the first session of the Board in October, 1945. A. S. Bedell, of the New York State Depart ment of Health, Albany, N. Y., was re-appointed Secretary-Treasurer, as were J. C. Brigham, Assistant Treasurer, and A. W. Eustance, As sistant Secretary, also of the State Department of Health.
James C. Harding (White Plains), Alexander GL Martin (Kenmore), and Benjamin L. Smith (Albany) were elected to the executive com
mittee for a term of three years. Retiring members from the executive committee are W. D. Denise, W. H. Larkin and Edward J. Smith.
With reference to the spring meeting, it was decided that due to the present ban on such meetings by the Federal government, no definite
spring meeting would be planned. In lieu of this it was decided to request the Capitol District Section of the Association to plan a meet ing in Albany for the second week in June which, if restrictions were lifted, could be turned into a statewide meeting. The services of the program committee and other committees will be given to the Capitol District Section in order that a more extensive program and suitable
arrangements could be made in case it becomes possible to hold a state wide meeting. In any case the executive committee will meet in the sec ond week of June in Albany in order to conduct the business of the Asso ciation.
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At the executive committee meeting, the following resolution was
passed and was read at the business meeting by President Larkin :
Be it hereby resolved that the executive committee on behalf of this Association go on record as expressing their appreciation and approbation to W. H. Wisely, Editor of
Sewage Works Journal, for the manner in which he has undertaken and carried through the development of the operators section of the Journal, which has greatly enhanced the
value and the services of the Journal to sewage treatment plant operators and all others
engaged in this field of endeavor.
At the general business meeting on Friday it was noted that the Association now has an active membership of 563 with five local sections
whose members total 180. The reports of the activities of these local sections as well as of the various standing committees of the Associa
tion were presented and discussed at this meeting. The first technical paper given at the morning session on January
19 was entitled "Practical Application of Principles of Modified Sew age Aeration," which had been prepared jointly by L. R. Setter, W. T.
Carpenter and George C. Winslow, Principal Sanitary Chemist, Senior Chemist and Engineer in Charge, respectively, of the Jamaica sewage treatment plant of the Department of Public Works, New York City. The paper was presented by Dr. Setter and he advised that in the
operation of that particular plant they had worked on the idea that it was possible to get any desired degree of treatment from plain settling to activated sludge by the use of this principle of modified sewage aeration. The Jamaica plant was used to check earlier pilot plant studies. In all, four separate systems of treatment were investigated for comparison of the effectiveness of each system. These systems differed in the amount of air used, amount of solids returned and in
aeration and settling times. This paper was discussed by Robert Sha
piro, who described similar work at the Bowery Bay sewage treatment
plant. At the luncheon meeting held in the Penn Top of the Hotel Pennsyl
vania, Dr. Albert E. Berry, President of the Federation of Sewage Works Associations, extended the greetings of the Federation and
spoke regarding the proposed meeting at Toronto in October, 1945. Dr. Berry then presented to Mr. C. A. Holmquist, Director of the Di
vision of Sanitation, New York State Department of Health, the Ken neth Allen Award certificate of the Federation, which award is given triennially to a member of each of the member associations for out
standing service in the sewage works field as related particularly to the problems and activities of that member association. In accepting the award, Mr. Holmquist stated that he would cherish it most highly because of his personal acquaintance with Kenneth Allen.
The Kenneth Allen Memorial Awards of the New York State Sew age Works Association for the best paper of a scientific or research nature and for the best paper by an operator showing unusual work at his plant were presented by H. H. Wagenhals, Chairman of the
Kenneth Allen Memorial Award Committee, who presented token
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awards since the bronze plaques will not be obtainable until after the war.
The research award was presented to Dr. Harry W. Gehm, Tech nical Advisor, National Council for Stream Improvement, of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Industries, Inc., New York, N. Y., for two papers published in Sewage Works Journal entitled "Neutralization of Acid
Waste Waters with an Up-flow Expanded Limestone Bed" and "Vol ume Characteristics and Disposal of Laundry Wastes."
The operation award was presented to Dr. L. R. Setter and Dr. Gail P. Edwards for their paper entitled "Modified Aeration?Part II."
W. H. Wisely, Executive Secretary and Editor, Federation of Sew
age Works Associations, gave a brief talk on Federation activities. He
reported that there was nothing definite as yet regarding the Toronto
meeting but that it was hoped that permission would be granted to hold this meeting. He stated that a number of the member associations had cancelled their meetings but that he would like to see as many such
meetings held as possible because they are the main source of material for Sewage Works Journal and requested that contributed articles be submitted to make up for the loss of program papers. Furthermore, it is proposed to intensify the work of the various committees.
Charles A. Emerson of the firm of Havens and Emerson, Consult
ing Engineers, New York and Cleveland, and past president of the Federation of Sewage Works Associations, gave a most interesting talk on early steps in sewage treatment. He outlined the original
methods of sewage treatment and how they had developed and ex
panded in the past 45 years. He gave much credit to engineers in this
country for developing the various methods of sewage treatment and for adapting European methods to our conditions. At the close of his talk he gave a roll call of the men who made national contributions to the art of sewage treatment during the past years. In connection with
this, he mentioned the work done in the Lawrence Experiment Station in Massachusetts, and after his talk one of the original chemists at this
experimental plant, Dr. W. R. Copeland, briefly addressed the meeting. The first paper in the afternoon session was one prepared by A. E.
Griffin, Assistant Director, and N. S. Chamberlain, Sanitary Chemist, Technical Service Division, Wallace and Tiernan Company, Newark, N. J., on "Exploring the Effect of Heavy Doses of Chlorine on Sew
age." In this paper Mr. Griffin outlined the effects of heavy doses of chlorine on the ammonia content of the sewage and compared these
phenomena with the effects of heavy doses of chlorine in water. The second paper in the afternoon session was presented by Willem
Rudolfs, Chief, Department of Water and Sewage Research, New Jer
sey Agricultural Experiment Station, and Louis Fontenelli, Chief
Operator of the Rahway Valley sewage treatment plant, on the "Rela tion Between Loading and Supernatant Liquor in Digestion Tanks."
Dr. Rudolfs pointed out that there is a definite relation between load
ing and supernatant liquor because with excessive loading it is impos sible to obtain a satisfactory supernatant overflow. His paper was
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based on tests at actual plants as well as on laboratory studies. The
next paper was one entitled "Co-ordinated Industrial Waste Research"
by Harry W. Gehm, Technical Advisor, National Council for Stream
Improvement, of the Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Industries, Inc., New
York City. In this paper Dr. Gehm outlined the steps now being taken
by the Council and what it hoped to do in the future. The last formal paper was given by Anthony J. Fischer, Develop
ment Department, The Dorr Company, Inc., New York City, and en
titled "Plant Scale Tests on Thermophilic Digestion." Dr. Fischer
pointed out the differences in sludge and supernatant obtained with
high and low digestion temperatures.
Major Andrew J. Fuller, on military leave from the New York State
Department of Health, gave a very interesting description of his ex
periences in Africa, India and China where he has been serving for the
last three years. In his brief talk Major Fuller pictured sanitation
conditions in that part of the world. He outlined also some of the
troubles which his organization experienced in getting proper sewage treatment facilities at army bases established in those areas.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 P.M. by President-elect G. E.
Symons, who presided at the afternoon session. A. W. Eustance, Assistant Secretary
PENNSYLVANIA SEWAGE WORKS ASSOCIATION
1945 Lecture-Laboratory Course for Sewage Works Operators
St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, Pa., April 11-May 23, 1945
When it became evident early in 1945 that the usual annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Sewage Works Association could not be held at
State College because of travel restrictions, the Executive Committee
of the Association immediately laid plans for a training course for sew
age works operators that would comply with the requirements of the
Office of Defense Transportation. Such a short course was considered
particularly justifiable in view of the intense pollution abatement cam
paign which has been undertaken by the Pennsylvania Sanitary Water
Board. Some 200 Pennsylvania municipalities have been requested to
provide major sewage works improvements at the end of the war and
the Pennsylvania Sewage Works Association has integrated its pro
gram with that of the Sanitary Water Board with the aim of providing trained personnel to operate the new and improved works.
At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Association held at Harrisburg on January 29, the following committee was appointed to arrange for the short course and develop the program: F. S. Friel,
Chairman; Gordon J. Wiest, Vice-Chairman; Robert M. Bolenius; Bernard S. Bush; George A. Elias ; L. D. Matter and Norman G. Young.
In order to provide for ? maximum attendance with a minimum of
travel, it was deemed advisable to stage the school in a large city; ac
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cordingly, arrangements were made for the short course to be given at
St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. Futher arrangements were made for the course to be sponsored by the United States Office of Education through the Engineering, Science and Management War Training Pro
gram. The State Department of Health and the Sewage Works Opera tors
' Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania collaborated with the
Pennsylvania Sewage Works Association in the development of the
lecture and laboratory program. The course was given in a series of one-day sessions on consecutive
Wednesdays from April 11 to May 23, 1945, inclusive. Total registra tion for the course was 65 and proof of the excellence of the program is
evidenced by the attendance record of 99.6 per cent, based on total stu
dent hours. The first two hours of each session were devoted to lec
tures on sewage treatment topics by prominent engineers, chemists, and
bacteriologists and the remaining 2% hours were devoted to instruction
and demonstrations in the laboratory under the supervision of the fac
ulty and lecturers. The presiding faculty comprised:
The Very Rev. John J. Long, President of St. Joseph's College Rev. Joseph J. Molloy, Head of the Department of Chemistry, St.
Joseph's College Rev. Martin J. Casey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, St. Jo
seph's College Joseph N. Bartlett, Associate Professor of Chemistry, St. Joseph's
College George A. Elias, District Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of
Health, Philadelphia Harry J. Krum, City Chemist and Bacteriologist, Allentown Gordon J. Wiest, Chemist and Bacteriologist, Jenkintown.
The lecture portion of the course included the following papers :
Wednesday, April 11
"General Duties of the Operator and the Reasons for Sewage Treat ment" by H. E. Moses, Chief Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of
Health, Harrisburg. "Characteristics of Sewage" by Dr. Harry W. Gehm, Jr., National
Council for Stream Improvements, New York City.
Wednesday, April 18 ( i
rpj^ theory of Primary and Complete Treatment Including Trends and Progress" by Linn H. Enslow, Vice-President and Editor, Water
Works and Sewerage.
Wednesday, April 25
"Operation of Screens, Grit Chambers and Sedimentation Units"
by W. Allen Darby, The Dorr Company, New York City. "Operation of Imhoff Tanks" by P. N. Daniels, Trenton, N. J.
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?"Operation of Intermittent Sand Filters" by Col. Frank E. Daniels, Chief Chemist, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg.
"Operation of Trickling Filters" by Frank Woodbury Jones, Ha vens and Emerson, Cleveland.
Wednesday, May 9
"Theory of Sludge Digestion?Operation of Separate Sludge Di
gestion Tanks" by L. L. Langford, Pacific Flush Tank Company. "Sludge Drying, Sludge Gas Utilization and Plant Hazards" by L.
W. Van Kleeck, State Department of Health, Hartford, Conn.
Wednesday, May 16
"Operation of the Activated Sludge Plants" by Gail P. Edwards, Chief of Laboratories, New York City.
"Chlorination of Sewage" by Harry A. Faber, Research Chemist, Chlorine Institute, Inc., New York City.
Evening Session
"Trouble Shooting on Chlorinators" by Harry J. Krum, Chemist and Bacteriologist, Allentown.
"Discussion on Chlorine Handling" by F. W. Nienow, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company.
"Discussion on Chlorinator Maintenance" by A. M. E. Johnstone, Wallace and Tiernan Company.
Wednesday, May 23
"Sewage Plant Records and Operating Reports" by L. S. Morgan, District Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Greensburg.
"The Effect of Industrial Waste on Sewage Treatment "by Chris tian L. Siebert, Executive Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of
Health, Harrisburg.
"Operation and Maintenance of Mechanical Equipment" by S. E. Kappe, Chicago Pump Company, Washington, D. 0.
At the concluding exercises on May 23, Rev. Joseph J. Molloy pre sented 64 Certificates of Completion and 9 Letters of Specification to those who attended the course. Addresses were given by George H.
Boone, Superintendent of the Norristown sewage works ; J. R. Hoffert, Assistant Chief Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of Health; and the Very Reverend John J. Long, President of St. Joseph's College.
B. S. Bush, Secretary-Treasurer
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