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SEWAGE

nd garbage management as been in existence for as early as the 1970’s as a result of the general concern expressed by people that worried about the increasing pollution in the human environment. But it even goes further then that. Ancient people have been finding ways of resolving sanitation. An ancient sewer system was found in the cities of Crete and Assyrian. Towards the end of the Middle ages cesspools were developed. After these cesspools where filled. The wastes were used as fertilizer at nearby farms or were dumped into watercourses or onto vacant land. Centuries later New York City is experiencing similar problems. New York City has a problem with waste storing its waste. Evidently there is no more room to put it. So New York is offering neighboring states to take its waste. And New York will pay these states on the dollar for the amount of garbage and sewage. A sewage treatment process commonly used to treat domestic wastes is the septic tank: a concrete, cinder block or metal tank where the solids settle and the floatable materials rise. This is one of the methods that New York City uses. But due to a surplus of refuse matter that comes in daily New York cannot treat all of it. ...

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