Recommendation of M. M. O'shaughnessy, City Engineer, on Refuse Incinerator, August, 1929

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Excerpt from Recommendation of M. M. O'shaughnessy, City Engineer, on Refuse Incinerator, August, 1929: Pursuant to Resolution No. 31, 004, New Series, of the Board of Supervisors, Adopted June 10, 1929, and Approved June 13, 1929To make the franchise effective, Ordinances were prepared and passed by the Board of Supervisors, making it mandatory that 'scavengers should deliver all refuse collected to the Destructor, and empowered the Company to charge sixty cents a ton for all refuse delivered to the plant by scavengers or others with occasional loads of rubbish. This charge, together with the sale or such salvage as could be collected and of ashes and residue from.the furnaces, made up the income of the Company.With the rebuilding of the City, after the disaster of 1906, there developed a very natural desire to improve many of the conditions that existed before that time, and the subject of Refuse collection and disposal came in for its share of study. While collection was not considered to any conclusion, disposal 'was carried to the point of decision on the method to be adopted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.