The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME 1 — NO. 41
Thursday, January 12, IMl
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STATE   CONDEMNS   HUNTLEY'S   SANITARY   DISPOSAL   SYS
"Huntley's sanitary sewer is in¬ adequate to handle the needs of the 1150 people now living in Huntley," thus says the state board and sanitation. The problem lies in the disposal plant which was com- ppleted in 1950. When it was con¬ structed, Huntley had a population of 850 and the plant was built to ^ accommodate a population of 1000. This plus the additional fact that certain residents of the town have their gutters and old cisterns at¬ tached to the sanitary sewer in- steiid of the storm sewer, causes the back up and inadec,uacies ot our present sanitarj' disposal sys¬ tem.
Huntley has two sets of sewers. A sanitary sewer which Is used to handle all of the water from the bathrooms, kitchens, washing ma¬ chines, and many other dirty types of water which is used in the home besides a storm sewer which is for surface water from roofs, cisterns. The storm sewer by passes the dis¬ posal plant all together and l-:ads directly into the stream as shown in the diagram above. The sanitar>- sewer leads into the disposal plant and is processed through the system until the water is consid¬ ered free enough from bacteria not to pollute the stream. The dis¬ posal plant is divided into a num¬ ber of separate sections.
The first of the sections is the grinder. All sewerage pass through the grinder and any solid objects which might get clodded in the pipes or pumps ot th< disposal plant are ground up into little pieces to render them harmless.   _
The only things which the grind¬ er will not break up are rags, steel, and tennis shoes. Large ob- jejcts such as there, however, are caught in a screen before they can do any damage to the machinery of the disposal i^ant.
The seweraige goes from the grinder to the pumps where it is Sanitary Sewer ...
(Conttnued   on page  4.)
Condemn: "To express opinion against; hold or prove to be wrong,—." New Practical Standard Die.
Above is shown a sketch of Huntley's Disposal Plant. This map shows approximately the route which tAe sewerage takes from the ttme it leaves the town until the baoetria is removed and the cured water is emptied into the stream. The line with '"XV running through it shows the route of the storm sewer to the stream. The
sinfi^e "—" line shows the route wliicfa Vtte sanitary sewer takes throuarh the plant (see fu^de). The doulrie dash "'" Une shews ilie ronte of the setieaMe strtlds to the beds (see article). "Em Off' .pn the map should have been "Imhoff."
Rene-vred  Stop Signs in To^ivn
Renewed Stop Signs —	
This week all of Huntley's stop signs were taken down and re¬ placed with freshly painted re¬ newed ones. The old signs were yellow and black and were placed throughout the village in 19 —.
The newly painted signs are re¬ painted yellow signs. The signs are red with white leters following the new trend in stop signs which was started a few years ago thruoghout the state.
Adult F^. Class
Does the Family Size Farm Really Pay?
hTis will be the topic of discus¬ sion at the 2nd adult farmer meet¬ ing in Farm Management Thurs¬ day, aJn. 12.
Ed Van Der Veen and Otto Zic¬ kuhr, MceHnry County farmers, will discuss this topic with our Huntley farmers. What is a family size farm? What management is required to be successful? And what are the things I shouldn't do? These will be part of the many questions discussed at the meeting.
Last week's Fertilizer Manage¬ ment featured Ford Danner who did a wonderful job discussing the topic with the over 30 farmeis present.
SORRY
The Village Board notes and some more photographe of the Disposal Plant will appear in next weeks edition of the Farmside. Wc are sorry that we were unable to print them in this edition.
Morris Eiefier, in charge oi testing, showes how each day he checks the sewage. (Below) Kiefier. takes down the old stop signs and replaces them with red ones.
Huntley has 2 stotionory pumps to handle sewoqe.
The Tridding Filt*r, it oitd in tiuamM ior ip«i^|^MM>*