Ontario Provincial Board of Health Annual Report, 1910
Reports of Medical Inspector, R. W. Bell, M.D. Pg. 29
Report Re: Sedimentation Tank at Trenton
(October 25th, 1910.)
To the Chairman and Members, Provincial Board of Health, Ontario.
Gentlemen, — A complaint having been made by the I.O.D.E. re the location of a Sedimentation Tank in Trenton, on a suggestion from your Secretary I went to that town and found as follows:
The tank now under construction is placed in the centre of a non-travelled street, close to and terminating at the bay, and adjoining a small triangular proposed park, in which the I.O.D.E. are interested. The tank is in accordance with specifications approved of by your Board, and as desired by the local authorities. The top will be one foot below street level, covered with earth and sodded. In itself probably not a nuisance and certainly not unsightly, but I suggested that when the park is improved and sodded a flower bed on top of the tank would be appropriate and pleasing to the ladies, etc.
The outlet pipe from tank, however, will only extend into the bay about 15 or 20 feet, and into very shallow water. With a wind blowing inshore I fear there will be a more or less offensive odor, and there will likely be some deposit which may become offensive along the shore line. The remedy is to extend the outlet pipe about 200 or 300 yards east into the current of the river, should the present arrangement prove a nuisance.