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<br /> <br />.,.fJ...:; <br />.\' ~:;. <br />Y'~,;~: <br />-. 'One Ii.un\lred and tI'iO industrial plants need nerw waste <br />l~t facilities; 38 need enlar~ements or additions to existing <br />1:iitiesJ'seven need replacer.Jent of ey.istin~ facilities; 17 re.. <br />:"e oonnection to rmmicipal sewers; and t.'le needs of 260 a1"e <br />ffiid~termined.The needs of the oil a.nd gas production industry are <br />:il.~- included in the above figures. . <br />:Jf,'" . <br />"i~;".;;" <br />. "c'- It is estilTated that the cost of required municipal waste <br />I~:'.i:-j;'reatm.ent fa.cilities will be approxilr.ately ~ii42, 000, 000, based on <br />1~'Lpresent average COnstruction costs considered reasonable in this <br />..:area. There is insufficient information ava;i.lable on industrial <br />"P:~llution and the nature and ma~ni tude of individual problem:;; to <br />permit estimating costs of measures required for treatment of in- <br />dustrllll wastes. <br /> <br />Progress in providing new or improved municipal waste <br />treatment faoilities is reflected in public sewage treatment plant <br />construction contracts awarded. In the yea. 1952, contraots <br />a.m.ounting to ~::4, 300,000 were aw"",rciedfor the oonstruc-tion of ne;v <br />plants, replacements, or improvements to existin~ plants; in 1953, <br />contracts amounting to $5.400,000 were a.warded. Data are not <br />. awilable on the construction co sts of industrial waste treatmen;t <br />facilities. <br /> <br />In addition to physical s.tructures needed for the control <br />of pollution, other f~ctors of iw~ort~~oe are the following: <br />Legislative ohanges needed are given; State financ~al support on <br />an increased scale is needed in several cases; the need for aGTee- <br />merrt .on water pollution contro 1 end water quality cop-siderations <br />in int;enitate compact:> is discussed;educationa~ activities for the <br />training of sewagetreatmB1l'c plant operators and industrial waste <br />plant personnel, as oonducted in ~~e'various States, are good but <br />need expansion and additional support on a basins-wide scope;' <br />research needs; to keep paoe with population srowth and industrial <br />development, are shown. <br /> <br />xi <br /> <br />0' <br />C._o <br />~ <br />~ <br />c.n <br />N <br /> <br />