Laserfiche WebLink
<br />and thereby do a lot of their own testing. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />We have tried for a number of years to <br />get state aid through the legislature to go <br />into some sort of a computer program. As <br />this analytical data comes in from our sources <br />and from the local health units, it gets pretty' <br />burdensome logging this manually and to try to <br />keep track of it all manually. We haven't had <br />too much success in getting the money from the <br />legislature. We did get an offer from the <br />federal people to utilize their computer, one <br />they are presently renting from Boeing in <br />Philadelphia. They have a terminal out here <br />at the Federal Center so it makes it quite <br />convenient for us. We had a demonstration of <br />a telephone terminal set up right in the com- <br />mission meeting last month. This would cost <br />us, plus the cost of the Watts line, $100 a <br />month to lease one of these. However, I think <br />that since we do have the Federal Center SO <br />conveniently located we will probably continue <br />to use theirs at the Federal Center. We will <br />have people from the EPA coming next Monday <br />to help train our people in the use of the <br />telephone terminal and we'll start feeding our <br />analytical data into this computer. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />One of the questions often asked is what <br />is our present status with regard to sewage <br />treatment. Five years ago when the commission <br />first started, we had 22 communities that were <br />discharging sewage without any treatment - <br />just a pipe into the river. We had 33 that <br />had only primary treatment. This removes about <br />a third of the organic matter for a total pop- <br />ulation of a little over 674.000. The latest <br />figures that we have. with no treatment we <br />have four communities. These are all small <br />communities since the total population amounts <br />to less than 1,000. with primary treatment we <br />have four communities with a total population <br />amounting to less than 6,500. So I think we <br />have come quite a ways in the last five years. <br />However, I don't want to leave you with a <br />