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This is tlie first objection, and not only on account of its expensive- 

 ness but also its offensiveness, as the following quotation from the 

 Minutes of Civil Engineering, Vol. 94, referring to the Clieswick 

 Sewage System will show : 



"" The smell of the sewage is, as a rule, most offensive on Sundays, 

 'especially in the evening, when it is often so bad as to make the 

 engine-room intolerable even to men accustomed to sewage smells." 



Mr. Baldwin Latham says : — " It may be said in the generality of 

 places, if due pi-ovision be made for storage, and if the ]>rinciple of 

 interception be also taken into account, there are few places in this 

 country that need to resort to the expensive process of pumjnng the 

 sewage in order to secure a free out-fall." 



In the face of all this, why, I ask, should a system be adopted that 

 is both expensive and offensive till the most thorough investigation 

 has proved beyond a doubt that gravity is unequal to the task? 



The second objection I take to the aforesaid scheme (H. and G.'s) is 

 the syphons across the Don. The wells of these, they admit, will 

 have to be cleaned. But they give us no indication how it is to be 

 done, nor have they included in their estimates anything to meet it. 

 This would be no small item if the same precautions be taken to keep 

 these syphons free that are taken with the Boston syphon. 



My third objection to the scheme is the location of its outlet pipe, 

 together with the screening station proposed at Balmy Beach and 

 Victoria Park. What an unmitigated nuisance would thus be created 

 along that beautiful part of the lake front! All chances of its ever 

 becoming a pleasure resort would be nipped in the bud. It would 

 cei'tainly prove a millstone around its neck. 



But last and greatest of all objections is the insecurity of its outlet 

 pipe from becoming choked, or I may rather say the certainty of its 

 becoming choked. It staiids to reason that the amount of sewage is 

 dependant on the amount of the city water supply, and as that aver- 

 ages about 12,000,000 gallons per day, we cannot look for a greater 

 amount than that to flow through our outlet pipe ; and, indeed, in 

 the dry season of the year, after deducting what is used for sprinkling 

 lawns and streets, for building purposes, and what is convei'ted into 



