Mr. Tawney. I am referring to Niagara Falls intake.
Mr. Perkins. I think the sewage at Niagara Falls can be taken care of by taking the drinking water from Lake Erie through the Welland power canal they are talking about.
Mr. Tawney. We have not power to compel the people over there to accept water from this side.
Mr. Perkins. I was referring to the power canal proposed to be constructed by the Ontario government. There will be pure water to supply Niagara Falls, Ontario, and they will have better water than any water that has been treated after the sewage of Buffalo has been treated and these cities have gone into it.
Mr. Dallyn. We have been producing water from the lower Niagara River, at lower Niagara, for some 15,000 troops and a population of 5,000.
Mr. Perkins. In reference to the aeration of the water, the Niagara Falls is the finest sanitation plant that could possibly be built—far better than any sanitation plant that could be built—for chemical treatment or otherwise, because the air is thoroughly distributed all through the water that comes down. The water becomes atomized, and the aeration of that water absolutely purifies it.
Mr. Tawney. In the lower Niagara?
Mr. Perkins. As it goes over the Falls. Every bit of water that goes over the Falls is aerated.
Mr. Tawney. The experts show it is polluted from shore to shore.
Mr. Powell. Do you mean that by sedimentation the heavy parts go to the bottom?