Mr. Follin. I have been with Mr. Rich, at Lansing, for one year and have been graduated three years.
Mr. Tawney. Have you given any study at all to the report of our consulting sanitary engineer in regard to remedies for the pollution of the Detroit River?
Mr. Follin. I have given only general consideration to it in the same way that Mr. Rich has, realizing that your problem was——
Mr. Tawney. From the study that you have given to it, what have you to say as to the thoroughness of the work that was done?
Mr. Follin. We consider that the work has been very thoroughly carried out, and that the recommendations made are very feasible.
Mr. Tawney. Does the State Board of Health of Michigan agree with the sanitary experts generally that no raw sewage should be deposited in any stream that supplies other municipalities or localities with water for domestic and sanitary purposes?
Mr. Follin. Personally we feel very strongly that way, but we realize that those opinions can not be forced within a very short time onto the municipalities in Michigan; but such an ideal condition must come slowly.
Mr. Tawney. What have you to say as to the standard of purification recommended by the consulting engineers in this progress report?
Mr. Follin. I do not feel that I am in a position to comment on that, although from the little study I have given the matter I believe it is very reasonable. I might explain one other thing. Our reason for studying only Ford City, Wyandotte, and Trenton below Detroit on this side of the river and not studying the river at River Rouge and Ecorse was because the Detroit water supply is furnished to River Rouge and Ecorse and that the river supply is first used below Detroit at Ford City. It was our intention to first study those conditions because they related to the purity of the water in the Detroit River.
Mr. Powell. I understood you to say that in one of these municipalities in which the water was treated it was found afterwards on examination to be unfit for drinking purposes.