Within the past year the Commission has established permanent offices to provide adequate and satisfactory working space for administrative engineering and laboratory personnel.

    The Nucleus of a technical staff has been engaged.

    The Commissioners personally made detailed inspections of the more grossly polluted areas of the District.

     Hearings required under the provisions of the Compact have been held throughout the entire District.

There will be found within the body of the report a statement which attempts to visualize the magnitude of the pollution in the Interstate Sanitation District and the vast program that must be accomplished before pollution is abated. The report indicates that the amount of pollution entering the District is so great that if it had to be pumped, it would require 1,100 fire engines operating continuously twenty-four hours a day. Spaced at 50 foot intervals, they would occupy the Hudson River shore of Manhattan Island from Battery to Grant's Tomb. Preliminary investigation discloses that 86% of the municipalities withing the District are violating the Compact requirements.

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