Sewage and Water Treatments Plants

File — Box: 1, Folder: 12

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Scope and Contents

1-23: Construction
24-29: Sign, "please do not write on the wall"
30-31: Bio-Flo toilet
32-33: Watershed signs
34-35: Destroilet
36: "Afterburner cruicible for use with internal combustion engines. High heat oxidizes CO and breaks photochemicals down into inert organics. Crucible is inserted before exhaust manifold pipe."
37: "Salt water-desalinization"
38: "Crubicle at 3300K"
39: "this Bi-A-Robi unit is mounted on a newly placed sewage tank that receives effluent from an existing septic tank, oakland, Md. The unit mixes air with the sewage in order to speed up the decomposition of the wastes. Photo by Harold H. Leich"
40-42: installation of the Bi-A-Robi
43: "Nature's Filtration Plant-Hundreds of springs gush out of a lava bed and cascade into a glacial river at Lava Falls, Northeast of Reykjavik. Photo by Harold H. Leich"
44: "Hot water tanks-not oil tanks- loom over downtown Reykjavik. Photo by Harold H. Leich"
45: "The largest hot spring in the world --so claim the Icelanders--is capped in concrete and used to heat greenhouses nearby" Photo by Harold H. Leich"
46: Sign, "please do not write on the wall"
47: Comfort station. advanced wastewater treatment plant shipped Olney Manor Park, MD. October, 1977."
48: Men in a boardroom meeting, circa 1970s
49: "Cycle-Let's waste treatment tank. photo by Photo Publishers, Inc."
50: "Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Peace Valley. Piping View"
51: "Modular Conceptual Systems, Inc., Ivyland, PA. Model CS/AWTP Envir-O-Pak Comfort Station and Advanced Waterwaste Recycle Treatment Plant Shipped-Olney Manor Park. Olney, MD. October, 1977. Customer-Maryland NAtional-Capitol Park and Planning Commission. Self contained unit-11 toilet compartments, 4 utinal, 5 wash basins."see also image number 47.
52: Envirovac, toilets with people in line to use them.
53: Envirovac, toilets

Dates

1933

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.