Hearings of the International Joint Commission in re remedies for the pollution of boundary waters between the United States and Canada

by International Joint Commission

Mr. Sloman. Have you made any inquiry as to whether or not the garbage could be disposed of by an incinerating plant?

Mr. Frank. No; I have not.

Mr. Sloman. Or whether the cost of an incinerating plant would exceed the cost of the plant you have in mind?

Mr. Frank. I think Prof. Phelps’s suggestion to simply throw the kitchen refuse which is thought to be infected into the furnace is the most simple and obvious that has been suggested.

Mr. Sloman. Your plant does not take care of anything but the excreta from the closets?

Mr. Frank. It does not.

Mr. Sloman. So that the vegetable matter and all that would have to be dealt with. After you have sterilized it you would throw it into the water?

Mr. Frank. Yes.

Mr. Sloman. After you have sterilized it and cast it into the water and it goes to the shore, would it not become a menace again by coming back into the water?

Mr. Frank. No; because the pathogenic organisms can not grow.