Water Supply and Sewage Disposal at the Military Aviation Fields, Posts, Depots, Etc., in the United States

Abstract

The Department of Military Aeronautics was responsible for the location, design and construction of its aviation fields and other posts from the beginning of the emergency until October, 1917, when this work was turned over to the Construction Division of the Army by order of the Secretary of War. Even after this date, the engineering section of the Department of Military Aeronautics governed in a large measure the design of utilities. Water supply and sewage disposal problems were handled somewhat differently than in the larger national army and national guard camps. The water supply problem was marked by the development of a large proportion of ground water supplies. Sewage treatment was marked by the fact that there was no standard unit adopted by the Department of Military Aeronautics as was done by the Arrny Cantonment Construction Division in its use of the Doten tank.