Advances in Sewage Treatment in the Decade Ending with the Year 1949: Report of the Committee of the Sanitary Engineering Division on Sewerage and Sewage Treatment

This report of the Committee on Sewerage and Sewage Treatment covers the years 1948 and 1949, and, in addition, at the request of officers of the Sanitary Engineering Division, the 10-year period from 1940 to 1949, a period of war activities followed by inflation. As yet a vigorous readjustment of prices has not occurred. However, the shortage of steel and cement and other materials has largely disappeared. There is still a considerable backlog of delayed civilian work, such as sewers, sewage treatment works, and garbage and waste disposal works, which was shelved because of high construction costs and the hope that lower prices would shortly prevail.