A regular feature looking back at what was being printed around 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the February 21, 1918 edition of the newspaper.
Credit: Grundy Library Archive
Philadelphia Defames Us; Accuses Us Of Contaminating River With Sewage
The following is a communication clipped from yesterday’s Philadelphia Record:
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BRISTOL’S SEWAGE
Editor of The Record:
Cannot out sluggish Health Department be stirred up to take some steps to protect us from being made the dumping ground for all of Bristol’s sewage and night soil? The intake for our city water supply is just below, and gets all this filth in overwhelming quantity. We have spent immense sums of our water supply and filtration plan, but not scheme of filtration will make sewage safe or wholesome. The city ought to insist on Bristol having a sewage disposal plant and prevent the emptying of any sewage in the Delaware River.
H. Bowlin, Philadelphia.
The above writer should make it a point to first ascertain the facts before forwarding such a communication to the press. Bristol has had an adequate sewage disposal plant for several years. All of the sewage of the township, except for surface water, is properly taken care of, according to the methods approved by the State Health Department, whose representatives, make frequent inspection.
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The United State Government has just about completed a $10,000 addition to the disposal plant in order to properly handle the sewage from the shipyard development at North Bristol.
An advertisement from the February 21, 1918 edition of the Bristol Daily Courier:
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