 For nine months sewage was applied nine times a day for six days in the week, in quantity equivalent to 81,400 gallons per acre per day (or 70,000 gallons per acre per day all the year), with the result that 98 • 6 per cent.  Proceedings - Page 271by Institution of Municipal Engineers (Great Britain) - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Health - 1890 - 974 pages
...cent, of the organic matter of the sewage, shown by the sum of ammonias, is removed by being burned and converted into nitrates, and more than 99 per cent, of the bacteria that were in the sewage were killed. We must regard this as a remarkably good result, with an effluent... | |
 | George Edwin Waring - 1894 - 282 pages
...of the organic matter of the sewage, shown by the sum of ammonias, was removed by being burned and converted into nitrates, and more than 99 per cent of the -bacteria that were in the sewage were killed. We must regard this as a remarkably good result, with an effluent... | |
 | Henry Robinson - 1896 - 242 pages
...but between 7000 and 8000 after passing through the sandy soil of the sewage farm at Gennevilliers. During 1890, sewage was filtered through a bed of...to have been converted into nitrates, and more than 99-6 per cent. of the bacteria were destroyed. In November the quantity was again increased. The results... | |
 | Henry Robinson - 1896 - 242 pages
...but between 7000 and 8000 after passing through the sandy soil of the sewage farm at Gennevilliers. During 1890, sewage was filtered through a bed of...the week for three months, ending October 24, when 98 • 5 per cent. of the organic matter was found to have been converted into nitrates, and more than... | |
 | 1896 - 666 pages
...of the organic matter of the sewage, shown by the sum of ammonias, was removed by being bourned and converted into nitrates, and more than 99 per cent of the bacteria that were in the sewage were killed. \Ve must regard this äs a remarkably good result, with an effluent... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1894 - 1114 pages
...acre per day. Here we find that 98'6 per cent, of the organic matter is removed by being burned and converted into nitrates, and more than 99 per cent, of the bacteria that were in the sewage were killed." Even the rate of 126,000 gallons per acre per day was successfully... | |
 | 1893 - 544 pages
...sewage was applied at the rate of 70,000 gallons per acre per day, 98.6 per cent, of the organic matter was converted into nitrates and more than 99 per cent, of the bacteria destroyed. This experiment is very conclusive as to the biological character of the process of destruction... | |
 | 1896 - 764 pages
...more than seven months, 98.6 per cent, of the organic matter of the sewage was removed by being turned into nitrates and more than 99 per cent, of the bacteria were killed. The foregoing results were so satisfactory that the quantity was increased by applying the... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Health - 1891 - 894 pages
...cent, of the organic matter of the sewage, shown by the sum of ammonias, is removed by being burned und converted into nitrates, and more than 99 per cent, of the bacteria that were in the sewage were killed. We must regard this as a remarkably good result, with an effluent... | |
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