Loomis, a resident of Canton, is in the practice of civil engineering and graduated from the State University of Michigan.
The following is an excerpt from the History of Stark County, The Suburban Era, 326: Sewers and Sewage, pages 261, 262:
City Engineer L. E. Chapin constructed a sewage disposal plant south of town on the present site of Bauhof Park in 1892-93-the first precipitation plant in the state. A picture of the sewage disposal works was given in the Canton Repository for May 14, 1893. It contained a building for machinery an inlet screen chamber, and inlet channel, four precipitation tanks, and effluent chamber, and sewer and sludge well. It was built before Imhoff tanks were brought to this country from Germany. Engineer Chapin reported to council that the process was chemical precipitation with lime and sulfate of alumina being added to the raw sewage. |
