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� �@R. FRED ti�J. UGHL� 158C No. Griggs, Roseville: I'm for the 29 � sewer system b�cause I'm for something that I think will protect our water supply - our qround water supply - and i feel that there is a possibilify that these septic tanks might be endangerin9 our ground water supply. Just today I was reading something here that I thought I might pass slon9 to you. Just a couple of words here. A committee in New York State - by the way they have a lot of problems with contaminated ground water in New York State so that got a cammittee together out there to study the problsm. In � 1957 this committee, in its report, said the follo�ning: It is agreed by sanitary and public engineering profession that the only satisfactory way that the disposing of domestic sewage in the modern comrt:unity is by means of public sewers. � In the Health D�partment we receive plats for approval with septic tank installations and in 278 cases approved them although wa know private sewage disposal systems, regardiess of condition, is a temporary condition which only postpones the development of the ultimate solution which is public sewers. This committee is definitely opposed to septic tank installations in realty subdivisfons built up or potentially built up areas regardless of soil and ground water conditions. septic tanks should be reserved for use in pr�domSnantly rural areas. Another paper by the American 5ociety of Civil Engineers states that as population d�nsity approaches one and a half persons per acre the need for public se�ruage is recognized. It is also staTed in another public report that sewers are financially feasible • when population density is 5 persans per acre. N.y int�rest is� as I said, in protecting our grou�d water resources. I'm a eanitary engineez MAYOR A5HBACH: Are ;you employed by the Banister EnginQering Co.? �