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AT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT Water Flows In Dirty-- Leaves Clean BY JOHN LeBLANC, JR. Of The Times Staff If the world's poor gel ~ dry, Jack Butler wou! rs' in line for a divining rod. As an indulger over the years in zoological readings, horti- culture, light chemistry and foreman of Oshawa's sewage treatment plant, he has turned himself into. a miracle man of conservation. "Conservation, my boy, that's my line," says the 59- year - old water purification chief. For 11 years Mr. Butler, of 183 Court St., has been in charge of converting eight to and the civic flower business 10,000,000 gallons (sometimes more) of polluted waters a day into waters healthy enough to raise his experimental tomato paich at the Fareweii Ave. plant. His success with the patch helped convince city officials of making a giant saving. A $45, 000 city greenhouse is going up near the treatment centre (no less) is going to thrive on sprinkling water drawn by pipe from the plant. GAS HEAT That's a new austerity phase. An older one involves roughiy 80,000 cubic feet of biological gas (methane) created daily by a bacteria commotion dur- ing the treatment of industrial and domestic wastes. About 40,000 ctthic feet of gas is already used on winter days to heat both the city parks branch and the. tieat- ment plant, and the remaining 40,000 cubic feet is wasted sur- plus. Mr. Butler says . methane saves the city $6,000 to $7,000 a year just on the treatment centre, which has to maintain a high temperature year round to keep family trees of bac- teria budding. : The parks branch, he esti- mates, has a saving of about $100 weekly in the winter. And the greenhouse is com- ing into the act. Some of that surplus gas is going to be used to heat the house and the unspent money there could be about $1,500 to $3,000 a year. Mr. Butler banks largely on microbes to eat up domestic discards that toar into the plant sut of the city's miles of underground sewer trackage at the tumul- tuous rate of 100,000 gallons or more a minute on a mild day. In a spring flood situation the volume could surge to 160,000 gallons a minute. | ROCK BED To know just what kind of bacteria he deals with, Mr. Butler dips into zoological bind- ings as often as he does a cirevlar rock bed (80 feet wide) where reproducing microbes are picked up by runnipg pol- luted water. In comparison to Anthony van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of bacteria in Holland under his microscopic lens 283 years ao, Mr. Butler gets better than a keyhole glimpse of how microbe propagation works on the underside of the embedded rocks. Now and again in a day's toil he strides to the bed, picks out a couple of rock specimens and checks the undersides for "nature at work." "Those little (which show up patches) keep going," he said. Jack's green-thumb attitude at the treatment plant really starts at the intake for the city's sanitary sewage through and industrial creatures as brown this place jthat test they pour into two | chambers a screen and rake machine that filtawe aut vafuce hieger s zr that iuscrs Sue Toiuge wsigecr than one-half an inch. TEETH, RINGS Things that get filtered in- clude false teeth (about 100 sets a year) and rings. When the murky wastes pass that remove silts, stones, and foreign bodies, or as much of them as possible. Primary clarifiers (two ground-level tanks holding 500, 600 gallons each) take over after that and catch the biggest part of solids, most of the greases, hairs and floating scums. And from here the "raw water" is piped into a filter distributor onto the bacteria rock bed. The distributor is 80 feet across and constantly dumps water over the bed as it rotates. While the polluted water drains over the rock spread it collects bacteria and oxygen (which it sadly lacked before- hand) and heads for the sec- ondary clarifiers, also capable of holding 500,000 gallons apiece. Here the sludge settles to the bottom (as it did in the primary clarifiers) and the cleaner topside water over- flows into a culvert, eventually being pumped into a_ half- marsh, half-dam for chlorina- tise at tho "back cf the See SLUDGE SHIFTS Sludge from the bottom of the second clarifier pools is shifted into the primary clari- fiers and from there into an active digester, a dome ar- rangement where bacteria (capable of eating steel) mul- tiply by the millions. In a matter of 15 days the bacteria pulverizes the sludge with help from gas they create in the process of demolition and multiplication in the incu- bator - dome. (This is the methane-gas used for heating and nobody knows for sure how bacteria make it.) From there the lighter water shifts to a secondary digester and another 15 days of incu- bator chaos follows before the whole works is injected back into the mainstream of, the plant and allowed to have an- other crack at making it to the chlorination dam. Mr. Butler says that for every foot of gas bacteria make, 12 to 14 feet of solids are destroyed. 'So, the more gas you make the less solids you have." He says industrial wastes like cyanide, acids from pickling steel or liquid chrome discards can gum up the works. They are great bacteria destroyers. An Oshawa mother today re- *@\peated her demand for a full FOREMAN INSPECTS ROCKS IN BED «+. Polluted Water Replenished Injured City Man "Fair" | resent Faces After One-Car Accident WEAPON CHARGE A 22-year-old Oshawa man who suffered a broken neck in a one-car accident Aug. 10 was reported in fair condition today at Toronto General Hospital. Station Work Starts In Fall ¢ Construction of the new east- end fire station is expected to atart this fall, a fire depart ment spokesman said today. Cost of the structure, to be} located on the north - side} of King St. E. just west of} the Town Line, has not yet} been determined but $60,000 has been allocated in the 1966 city budget for the project. When completed, No. 4 fire-jorial Hospital and discharged|covered a chest that had been|a water safety demonstration.|right approach to boating and hall will be manned by some 24 men bringing to 141 the to- department. The spokesman said the two- bay station is still in the plan-| 39, RR 1, Pontypool, was slight-/buried again in the building's|p, ~ | by ning stages. | Douglas F. Manuel was in critical condition when pulled| from his wrecked car after it veered off Highway 35 near| Rosedale, about 30 miles north) of Lindsay. Mr. Manuel, son of Mr. and Mrs, William F. Manuel, 83 Gladstone Ave., Oshawa, was taken by Fenelon Falls am- bulance to Ross Memorial Hos-| pital, Lindsay, and later trans-| ferred to Toronto General. | A Lindsay man, Denis Johns- ton, injured in a car-truck head- on collision Wednesday on} Taunton Rd., was reported in| satisfactory condition at Osh-| awa General Hospital today. | Edmond Stoldt, 27, and Rain- ier Schugardt, 13, passengers in the pickup a A city man, Rudi 40, of 1224 Cloverdale St., has been charged by Oshawa police with possession of a dangerous weapon following a shooting incident at a Howard St. home on Sunday morning. Gerac was released from hospital Sunday after treat- ment for cuts. He is on bail and will appear in Oshawa court. The incident occurred at 2.30 a.m., Sunday. No one was hit by the gun blast. The Howard St. home is owned by Victor Solotorow. FIND CHURCH HISTORY VANCOUVER (CP) -- Work- Gerac, | public investigation into condi- tions at the Smith Falls On- tario Hospital School. Ten days ago the 10-year-old mentally disturbed son of Mrs. Adrian Van Lith, of 303 High- land Ave., nearly kicked to death in a fight with fellow pupils at the school. He was allowed, Mrs. Van Lith said, to walk around for three days with a ruptured spleen before he collapsed and was taken to hospital in critical condition. On Friday Dr. Matthew Dymond, Ontario's Minister of Health, said in a public state- jment that the incident could have happened "in anyone's back-yard." He termed press reports of the incident as "completely exaggerated." |OFFENDED | | "I suppose we are to draw from this,"" said Mrs. Van Lith today, "that Dr. Dymond) thinks that my husband and I} jare crackpots for causing so) much fuss. 'We are not crackpots and I am deeply offended that Dr.| "We are honest parents and| we believe that there should be) a full public investigation into conditions at the school. brush this matter off as being |politically offensive. "This matter has got nothing to do with politics. We are talk- ing about children. | | "We are not interested in suing anybody or laying charges or even in the publicity! we are getting. DARLINGTON PARK was punched and § PAUL VAN LITH "We just want to ensure that} nothing of this type will ever happen again," said Mrs. Van) Lith. | DROWNINGS "There have been two drown- weeks as well as Paul's beat- ing. Could they have happened in 'anyone's back-yard?' "I am sure that if Paul had} back-yard there would be a full police investigation. What Dr. Dymond says is too ridiculous for words. | 'How would you feel if it was} your child that had been beaten} up? "I am sure that you would} give the whole matter very ser- | The voice of "Hockey Night! in Canada", will be heard at} Darlington Provincial Park, truck _were|ers demolishing the foundations| Sunday, when Bill Hewitt will|tificial respiration methods. treated at Bowmanville Mem-|of Marpole United Church dis-|he master of ceremonies for late last week. t Mr. Johnston, driver of the|tained a history of the parish|by the Outdoor tal strength of Oshawa's fire|car, had to be freed from the|pack to 1861. The record was vision of the wreckage of his auto. Driver} of the truck, Ernst Schugardt, ly injured. buried there in 1927. It con- brought up to date and the chest new foundation. -- sponsored| recreation de-| Ontario Safety League -- will begin at 3 p.m. Mr. Hewitt announced play- play of National Hockey League games. ! The program _ Hockey Announcer Aids _ Water Safety Program | The safety league is promo- ting the proper use of outboards and water skis, as well as ar- Emphasis is placed on the its safety features. This is a large part of the league's summer water safety program and is being presented in pro- vincial and municipal parks throughout Ontario. WELCOME MAT ATTRACTS 180 Illegal Immigrants Register The welcome mat at awa's immigration office Osh- has V..G. Jenkinson, migration officer in federal im- the city, goslavia, Mi ddie East, South America and Italy. home here have come forward. -- other Repeats Inquiry Demand ious thought. It was doctors and psychologists who suggested we send Paul to this school. "They told us that this is where he would be treated best. Now this happens. What are we supposed to think? We have to decide now whether we can send Paul back to the school or not. "My husband has collected money for the school. In June after he got a plant collection going in General Motors we donated five tricycles to the school. "In another collection we do- nated hair-dryers to the school for the girls there. "This was only the beginning too. We had other plans in mind," said Mrs. Van Lith. NO CONFIDENCE "We believed in the school and what it could do for Paul. 'Now our confidence is shatter- jed and Dr. Dymond wants to! hus the matter up. "Maybe he thinks that if there is a public investigation he will lose staff from the school. I don't think he will. "In the last week here we have had dozens of calls from | Dymond should think like this. |ings at the school in recent/neople we don't even know. They. all support us. "We don't want any more calls. We want these people to do something. We want action "Dr, Dymond is trying to been beaten up in someone's/and quickly. "Nothing like this must be allowed to happerf*to any other children at the school. "We beg the public for their support. This matter can't be dealt with behind closed doors." REDS FOLLOW MODE MOSCOW (AP) -- "Urgently|' : i who was accidently shot in the|q needed . . . nice blondes with good hair . . . should be tall and slender," read the notice in the Russian capital's evening paper. The girls were wanted \for models for a Soviet hair- styling team in an_ interna- tional competition 'held in Bu- dapest. 6 Pt a a a ae a y JACK BUTLER STANDS ON DIGESTER ... Solids Are Pulverized Below The Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1966 Young City Liberals © 'Look Ahead 10 Years: | Labor - management rela- \tions-1976 were studied by three members of the Oshawa Young Liberal Association who at- {tended the three-day conven- jtion 66 at Geneva Park, Orillia which ended Sunday. The Oshawa delegates, Gun- nar Sonderskov, Karl and president Thomas Haar, were part of a convention com- mission set up to discuss the problem. After a lengthy debate the commission arrived at some conclusions. "We advocated an overhaul- ing of union laws, especially |concerning the use of court in- junctions in strike action," said the Oshawa president. Wild-cat strikes, he said, are Woman Recovers After Shooting A Portland, Oregon, woman back by her husband Friday is reported in satisfactory. condi- tion today at Oshawa General Hospital. Winnifred Booker, 40, was in- jured when the semi-automatic pistol being cleaned by her hus- band discharged in a New- castle area motel. Jensen strictly labor's problem and should be settled within the union structure. file' members can show dis- is to go on a wild-cat strike against them rather than management," he said as an example. Mr. Haar added that with a little effort from both the Liberal Party and unions they both could once again be work- ing partners. Continuous help cut down negotiations to long costly "Some unions are now so large, the only way 'rank and satisfaction with the executive strikes, guaranteed wages and profit sharing plans to jobs more attractive and man power planning to help aid Can+ ada's future were other areas the commission investiagated, Theme of the convention was Ontario 1976. Commissions were also formed to discuss land and uses, 1976; the individual and society, 1976 and The Liberal Party, 1976. Mr. Haar said a young Lib- eral will be one of the six delegates from Ontario riding attending the Ottawa policy rally in October, An inquest into the death of Thomas Elliott, 49, of Toronto, has been scheduled for Wednes- jay. Mr. Elliott, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elliott, of 685 Bessborough Dr., Oshawa, was instantly killed July 28, when the 15 foot cedar strip boat in whcih he was riding, collided with another boat. The mishap occurred on Clear Lake, near Kawartha Park Ma- Boating Fatality Inquest Scheduled For Wednesday rina, about 18 mile north of Peterborough. : Driver of the other boat, Wil- liam Nortlock, 17, of 748 Hop- kins Ave., Peterborough was thrown clear and not injw Elliott's wife was taken the Peterborough hospital and treated for shock and minor cuts, then released the follows ing day. . Thin inquest will be held at the Peterborough court house? attracted over 180 illegal im- migrants during the past two years and 30 since July 8 A deadline for the country's backdoor immigrants to regist- er for resident status came one week ago. These were pri- marily visitors who had come to Canada and then decided to stay. The federal governement in an effort to curb what was termed by Jean Marchand, Mi- nister of Citizenship and Im- migration, as an increasingly serious problem, declared a five - week open season on these people requiring them to register as landed immigrants. The new policy was announ- ced on July 8 by the Minister to prevent persons from rem- aining as immigrants, in this way circumventing the normal immigrant channels. Says approximately 180 people have come forward in the past two years most of whom had intentions of staying in Canada illegally. "No one has come in. since Aug. 15 but if a person does his case will be examined on its own merits", he said Citizens of Western European countries are permitted to en- ter Canada without visas and stay as long as three months, the immigration officer said "If they decide to stay on permanently, they must apply for landed immigrant papers," he added. Of the 180 who approached the office during the past two years the majority were of Greek and West Indies origin, Nex. .in line were th 49 ich, Portugurese and West Germans followed by visitors from Yu- CHECK BACKLOG Mr. . Jenkinson said his de- partment is now checking the backlog of applications to see it the applicants meet the legal requirements to stay in Canada. They must have come to Ca- nada as visitors and not through fraudulent means; they must not have a criminal record or immoral character, and. must either have married a Cana- dian, been steadily employed for eight months or have 10 years of schooling. "Some have been reluctant to fill out applications for fear of the action our department night take, Sut the announce- ment-by Mr. Marchand may have cleared up any doubt they may have had," said Mr. Jenkinson He added that nearly all who had intended to make their FEW. QUOTAS Canada, he said, has no quo- ta restrictions on the number of immigrants that can enter the country, except if they are especially asked for, as in the case of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. "These countries request we restrict the number of immi- grants coming from their coun- tries because they are afraid of losing their professional peo- ple,' the immigration officer said. The net result to date of the immigration department policy announcement is that there are now applicatons on hand from 25,616 such persons for landed immigrant status, an official communique from the Minister Sayvs These applications will be dealt with as rapilly as pos- sible the release states. Jerry Jackman, tions manager of Raynor Construction Lftd., (left) and Wilfred Gillberry, har- bor manager study a map of the harbor reclaiming opera- area as 10 cubic yards of concrete rubble and earth is dumped onto the 10- acre site. Almost two acres of land has been re- claimed from Lake Ontario with the depositing of 7,000 cubic yards of fill obtained from the excavation of Simcoe St. §. The harbor commission hopes to cut. in the annual cost of RUBBLE DUMPED AT HARBOR RECLAIMING AREA dredging the harbor by also using dredged materials in the reclaiming process. --Oshawa Times Photo. ey ae