The search for the ultimate sink: urban pollution in historical perspective
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1996
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| Schriftenreihe: | Technology and the environment
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| Beschreibung: | XLVII, 419 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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| adam_text | Contents
Illustrations
List of Photographs ix
List of Figures x
List of Tables xi
Series Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword by Martin V. Melosi xxi
Introduction xxix
part i. Crossing Environmental Boundaries 1
i. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Air, Land, and
Water Pollution in Historical Perspective 7
ii. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Hudson
Raritan Estuary Region, 1700—1980 36
in. The Pittsburgh Survey as an Environmental Statement 77
part 11. Water Pollution 103
iv. Decisions about Wastewater Technology, 1800 1932 111
v. The Separate vs. Combined Sewer Problem: A Case Study
in Urban Technology Design Choice 131
vi. Disputes over Water Quality Policy: Professional Cultures
in Conflict, 1900 1917 159
vii. Water and Wastes: A Retrospective Assessment of
Wastewater Technology in the U.S., 1800 1932 179
part in. Smoke Pollution 219
viii. Changing Fuel Use Behavior and Energy Transitions:
The Pittsburgh Smoke Control Movement, 1940 50 227
ix. Railroad Smoke Control: The Regulation of a Mobile
Pollution Source 262
part iv. Land, Transport, and Environment 285
x. From City to Farm: Urban Wastes and the
American Farmer 293
xi. From City to Suburb: The Moral Influence of
Transportation Technology 309
xii. The Horse—Polluter of the City 323
part v. Industrial Wastes as Hazards 335
xiii. Historical Perspectives on Hazardous Wastes in the
United States 341
xiv. Industrial Wastes, Water Pollution, and Public Health,
1876 1962 354
xv. Searching for a Sink for an Industrial Waste 385
Name Index 413
Place Index 417
viii Contents
List of Illustrations
Photographs
1.1. Sowing for Diphtheria 3
1.2. Natural Beauty vs. Industrial Odds 4
1.3. The Valley of Work 4
1.4. Flooding in Pittsburgh, 1907 5
11.1. Pumping Station, Toledo 105
11.2. The Town Pump 105
11.3. Extreme Civic Neglect 106
11.4. A Baltimore scavenger, 1911 106
11.5. Pan Closet: Pan, Plunger, and Plug 107
11.6. Made in Baltimore 107
11.7. An open sewer in Pittsburgh 108
11.8. Sewer construction, 1910 109
m.i. Smoke from the Metals District, Pittsburgh, 1914 221
in.2. A railroad marshaling yard in Pittsburgh, 1914 222
111.3. Smoke blighted trees in Munhall Hollow, above the
Homestead Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Company 222
111.4. Darkness at Noon in Downtown Pittsburgh, 1920 223
111.5. Pittsburgh Smoke Control Campaign, 1941. 224
111.6. The partially cleaned Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1990 224
111.7. Steam Locomotive Going through Oakland, 1953 225
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iv.i. Pumping sewage on crops for fertilizer 288
iv.2. Removing dead horses from the city streets 289
iv.3. A White Wing cleaning New York City streets of horse
manure 290
iv.4. Horse manure piled up on a New York City street, 1893 290
iv.5. A sketch drawing of the nation s first scientifically designed
sanitary landfill, Fresno, California, 1940 291
iv.6. Throwing Dead Horses into the Harbor of New York
at Night 291
v.i. Workers and Their Dwellings at Pittsburgh Coke Ovens,
1888 337
v.2. Beehive coke ovens, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, 1890s 338
v.3. World s largest concentration of beehive ovens—Jones
Laughlin Iron and Steel Company, located in Hazel
wood, Pittsburgh 338
v.4. Byproduct coke ovens, Clairton, Pennsylvania 339
v.5. Coke quenching at the LTV byproduct coke ovens in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 339
Figures
2.1. Total Acres in Improved Farmland—Hudson Raritan
Region 41
2.2. Human Population—Hudson Raritan Region 44
2.3. Average Dissolved Oxygen during Summer—Hudson
River 59
2.4. Sewage and BOD Loading (mgd)—Hudson River and
East River 65
5 i. Urban Population, Population Served by Waterworks,
Sewers, Water Treatment and Sewage Treatment,
1880 1940 172
8.1. Coal and Natural Gas Use in Pittsburgh, 1934,1940,1950
—Domestic Heating 229
8.2. Percentage of Total by Fuel Type (Central and Non
Central Heating) 229
8.3. Eight Cities—Percentage of Homes Heated with Fuel
Type, 1950 230
15.1. Coke chart 395
x Figures
Tables
5.1. Sewer Mileage by Type and Population Class—1905,
1907,1909 152
6.1. Population Supplied with Water and Treated Water and
with Sewers Sewage Treatment 174
7.1. Sewer Mileage by Type and Urban Population Group—
1905,1907,1909 188
7.2. Sewer Mileage and Typhoid Fever Mortality in Fifteen
American Cities Located on Streams and Lakes,
1880 1905 189
7.3. U. S. Population, Urban Population, and Population
with Water Treatment, Sewers, and Sewage Treatment,
1880 1940 194
Tables xi
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