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STAFF REPORT PREPARED FOR THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON WASHNGTON METROPOLITAN PROBLEMS ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND WATER POLLUTION IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA

In 2011, the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland published a report that began to quantify the burden of disease from industries using a single site, beginning the process of measuring health impacts. This report revisits that process but goes a step further. Using additional data the 2012 report estimates the total health impact from toxic industrial pollutants in 49 countries in the developing world, extrapolating health impacts to provide a better understanding of the true scope of the issue. Within the last year the Blacksmith Institute has investigated and analyzed hundreds of additional sites around the world and initiated. | 85oJ Ro ssi COMMITTEE PRINT a Session J SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND WATER POLLUTION STAFF REPORT PREPARED FOR THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN PROBLEMS ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND WATER POLLUTION IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA MARCH 1958 Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 23124 WASHINGTON 1958 JOINT COMMITTEE ON WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN PROBLEMS ALAN BIBLE Nevada Chairman Dewitt 8. HYDE Maryland Vice Chairman WAYNE MORSE Oregon JOHN L. McMillan South Carolina J. GLENN BEALL Maryland HOWARD w. SMITH Virginia Frederick Gutheim staff Director n FOREWORD The Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems pursuant to the terms of House Concurrent Resolution 172 85th Congress is conducting a series of studies of the growth and expansion of the Washington metropolitan region. The scope of this investigation has been outlined in the committee s progress report published as Senate Report 1230. To facilitate studies by the committee and the presentation of material in public hearings a series of staff working papers are being prepared. The following paper by Gilbert V. Levin of Resources Research Inc. is one of a group of three working papers dealing with aspects of the metropolitan water problem. Mr. Levin s paper is an independent professional analysis and will be used as a background for hearings of the Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems. Mr. Levin s paper reviews a veritable snelf load of reports that have been written on the pollution and sewage-treatment problems of the Potomac River. The most important of these are cited in the bibliography at the end of this report. This paper attempts an overall metropolitan view of the problem. Many of the previous studies reflect the political fractionalization of the Washington metropolitan area and are concerned with only a part of the total problem. Others reflect the piecemeal approach dictated by the limited .