14. PROTOTYPE REGIONAL POLLUTION COLLECTION, TREATMENT, AND PROCESSING 
SYSTEM 
To date, one of the penalties of increased population and industrial centers has been intensified 
pollution of rivers, estuaries, and bays. At the same time, requirements for fresh water and recreational 
areas have been increasing. The construction of a Prototype Regional Pollution Collection, Treatment, 
and Processing System will serve as an important step in a long range program to stem the disastrous 
effects of pollution while providing additional fresh water and other usable products. 
It is well within existing technical capability to design and construct this type of system. Conversion 
of former waste products into usable products may well serve to offset the costs of the system for 
municipalities or public utilities. 
The disposal of untreated or partially treated pollutants into fresh and salt water areas greatly reduces 
their utility. As populations increase and available land areas diminish, space requirements for urban 
pollution treatment systems will become more critical. Immediate implementation of this program is of 
real importance to the national interest. 
NATIONAL PROJECT 
14. Prototype Regional Pollution Collection, Treatment, 
and Processing System 
Fundamental Technology Subsystem and Component Development 
Basic treatment technology Development of useful and marketable products 
Contaminant measurement devices Rational division between primary industry treatment 
and that performed by regional system 
Coastal ecology 
Environmental considerations 
Coastal engineering 
Expected Benefits Operational Systems 
Social-Economic Regional pollution collection, treatment and 
Opening of many coastal areas closed because of [editor est) By StcliS) Se 
excessive pollution 
A technology that will save presently unpolluted 
areas from future pollution 
Reuse of materials that are presently discarded. 
This is of increasing economic importance as 
raw material reserves become more expensive 
to extract : 
Creation of a new pollution,equipment industry 
Improved health and enjoyment for present 
and future generations 
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