Mr. Gardner. Have you with you plans of your sewerage system?
Mr. Bryson. No; I did not bring any. They are on file with the commission’s original report of 1914.
Mr. Gardner. Can you give us a general outline of the character of your sewerage system?
Mr. Bryson. The town is divided into two systems. One system discharges into what is called the west-end division. The main sewerage area takes about three-fourths of the area of the town and discharges about 820 feet from the intake pipe. It starts with a 16-inch outlet and then follows up with an 8-inch outlet in the river. The original system was laid out to take only sanitary sewage, but for some reason that was abandoned. The west-end system is a 9-inch pipe, except the small piece of 8-inch cast-iron pipe running into the river. That discharges about half a mile above the intake pipe. It is practically all sanitary sewage.
Mr. Gardner. What is the nature of the surface of the country there? Is it flat?
Mr. Bryson. No; it is very hilly. We have really three watersheds in the town.
Mr. Gardner. As an engineer, would it, in your judgment, be very difficult to put an intercepting sewer in there for the purpose of purifying the sewage?
Mr. Bryson. Plans have been gotten out for intercepting all the west end sewage and bringing it into the main system.
Mr. Magrath. Have those plans been approved by the public health service?
Mr. Bryson. No; they have never gone to them, but it is a recommendation from them that the sewage from the west end be pumped into the main sewerage system. That was one of the conditions contained in the original order, that the west end sewage be passed into the main sewerage system.