ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS IN SELECTING A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

Oklahoma communities of all sizes are plagued with problems concerning the disposal of treated sewage in compliance with Public Law 92-500, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. As applied to civic treatments (as point sources), this legislation requires the discharge of zero pollutants into navigable waters by 1985. This study analyzes a rural town's cost-effective investigations in attempting to comply with the law. Emphasis is on the economic and environmental efficiencies of alternatives to the presently used system