May 12, 1976
Dave Presto is making the rounds with Mount Joy police officers. Photo shows Dave
flanked by officers Bill Roberts and Bill Rueter.
DHS Career Elective Program
story and photos by
Judy Stolzfus
During the month of May,
about 80 seniors at Donegal
are participating in the
Career Elective Program.
This program allows a
student to participate in
something of his career
interest.
There is no limit to how
far a student may travel to
his particular job. Each
student is required to either
write a journal or research
report, or do a project. Also,
each student must have a
teacher/advisor and the
student must have a spon-
sor.
The teacher/advisor and
the student are to have a
conference at least once a
ie
week about what the student
has done and how it relates
to his career interest.
Students have choosen
fields in criminology, nurs-
ing, photography, business
management, secretarial
work, teaching, law en-
forcement, building and
construction, vetinary
medicine and printing.
Kathleen Jones is helping the art departments at Grandview and Seiler schools. Photo
shows Kathy with Lisa Coover (left) and Mindy Garman.
Peggy Shenk is working at Lehman’s Nursing Home. Photo shows Peggy chatting with
Mr. Henry Earhart.
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES - Page 9
Map shows present Mount Joy sewage plant, with proposed additions in gray.
[continued from page 1]
Up to a million gallons of
sewage flows from the
drains of Mount Joy every
day. It flows through the
Mount Joy sewage treat-
ment plant, then is poured
into Chickies Creek.
The treatment plant was
built in 1957. It was de-
signed to process a smaller
volume of sewage.
The treatment process
takes time. When there is
too much sewage, the pro-
cess does not work. That is
why new treatment facilities
are needed in Mount Joy.
The Mount Joy plant does
two things: it removes solids
from the sewage, and it
breaks down chemicals dis-
solved in the water.
Raw sewage entering the
plant is 99% water. The
sewage goes into big hold-
ing tanks (called clarifiers)
and gravity slowly drags the
solid particles to the bottom.
Pumps at the bottom of
the tank move the solids,
called sludge into compost-
ing tanks. The sludge ends
up as fertilizer.
Relatively clean water is
siphoned off the tops of the
Musical to be held at
The Donegal All Element-
ary Musical will be present-
ed in the Riverview Auditor-
ium in Marietta on May 18,
at 7:30 P.M.
The concert will feature a
selected chorus from the
Maytown, Riverview, Seiler
and Grandview buildings,
performing a program pre-
pared by Mrs. Pat Enos and
John Eyer, and the All
Elementary Band, selected
from the same four build-
ings and performing a
program prepared by H.
Morrell Shields.
The final number will be a
patriotic selection done by
both groups together.
For the third consecutive
year, the All Elementary
Band has been invited to
present a concert in the
Branford, Connecticut
Schools.
The last two concerts
were presented in the Short
Beach Elementary School
clarifiers. The water con-
tains a lot of unpleasant
chemicals, like ammonia,
and a lot of bacteria.
The bacteria feed on the
chemicals and slowly con-
vert them to less objection-
able compounds. To speed
this process, the water is
run through a large bacter-
iological farm called a
“trickling tank.”
The trickling tank is a
round concrete pool filled
with rocks. A special breed
of laboratory-bred bacteria
grows on the rocks. Liquid
sewer is sprinkled over the
rock and trickles to the
bottom of the tank. By the
time it reaches the bottom,
most of the chemicals have
been broken down.
Before the water goes into
Chickies Creek, it is held in
yet another clarifier, where
bacteria keep working and
remaining solids settle out.
It is also chlorinated to kill
disease germs.
Because too much sewage
is flowing through the plant,
the solids don’t have time to
settle out, and the bacteria
don’t have time to do their
job.
but this year plans call for
the concert to be presented
in the new Middle School.
The band will leave
Mount Joy at 12:30 p.m. on
Thursday, June 3, and will
arrive in Branford about
6:30 p.m. A rehearsal in
planned for the evening and
possibly a swim in the
Middle School pool before
retiring in the Short Beach
School.
A rehearsal is planned for
the evening.
The concert will be
presented the next morning
at 9 a.m., after which the
students and their chaper-
ones will board their busses
en route to Plymouth,
Massachusetts.
The remainder of the day
will be spent touring Ply-
mouth, when the group will
return to the Short Beach
School for the night.
The next morning; June
Planned improvements
include: a new holding to
give solids more time to
settle; an aeration tank to
help the bacteria work more
efficiently; a special tank
which adds alum to the
sewage to chemically speed
the removal of solids; a sand
filter to break down chemi-
cals; new pumps and tanks
to process the increased
amount of sludge; and a new
headquarters building to
house the complicated new
control gear required.
All these improvements
will cost $5 million. An
outlet pipe to the Susque-
hanna will cost another $5
million.
The new facilities will
prevent ecological disrup-
tion of Chickies Creek.
When incompletely pro-
cessed sewage is dumped
into a creek, the water may
be over- fertilized.
Micro-organisms in the
creek increase to the point
where they use up oxegen in
the water. Fish die, and the
water smells bad.
The higher new sewer
rates will buy a pleasant
future for Chickies Creek.
Riverview
S, the band will depart tor
home, arriving sometime
Saturday afternoon.
The band will be present-
ing the same concert on May
18 that it will perform in
Branford.
The public is invited to
the Riverview School for
that performance.
DID YOU HEAR...
Miss Aurick’s fifth grade
from Riverview went around
Marietta Friday, April 30th
picking up trash. The
students picked up forty
bags of trash. They could
have collected many times
as much trash but they ran
out of bags! The activity was
part of a unit on community
health. One aspect of the
unit dealt with pollution.
The students felt they could
make a personal contribu-
tion by picking up trash in
their community.