Report on the Water Pollution Investigation of a Tributary of the Volga River near Hawkeye Iowa by Division of Public Health Engineering, 1954

(1954) Report on the Water Pollution Investigation of a Tributary of the Volga River near Hawkeye Iowa by Division of Public Health Engineering, 1954. Human Services, Department of (Health and Human Services, Department of)

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Abstract

The present water pollution investigation of a tributary of the Volga River below Hawkeye., Iowa, was initiated following the receipt of a petition from the Windsor Township Board of Trustees, Fayette County, dated October?, 1952. Complaints had also been received by the Department stating that a nuisance condition exists in the receiving stream due to the discharge of partially treated sewage and wastes from the Hawkeye sewage treatment plant and that it had become impossible to make use of the stream for livestock watering. The principal source of pollution contributed to the stream is the Hawkeye sewage treatment plant. The town has a population of 511 (1950 census) and the sewage treatment plant provides settling only by means of an obsolete septic tank constructed in 1918. The files of this Department reveal that the plant has provided inadequate treatment since 1948.