The first lagoon will serve for design and service data under the joint municipal-state pilot study. Site acquisition, grading, rights oft way. engineering fees and nterccp tor lines constitute the principal costs of sucti a system. This Farmville 'first' story started when Councilman C. J. Cox’s at tention was caught by a magazine article on the lagoons of the mid west. Aware of the expense facing the town. Cox talked the article over with Town Manager Johnston. Maybe it would work here, they agreed. Johnston dispatched inquiries to state and municipal authorities ex perienced with lagoons as an ac cepted form of treatment: the city manager at Kansas City; the state beards of health of North and South Dakota, Missouri and Kansas. Arrange Visit Back came enthusiastic replies, and a situation jelled with the town council: might it not be well to have the situation personally investigated, they reasoned? Johnston contacted W. Mar tin Johson. of the Lynchburg firm of consulting engineers, Wiley and Wilson, which serves Farmville as a client. He also thought on-the-spot visits might be well. So did W. H. Shewbridge. director of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State Board of Health. So a party of Johnson. Shew bridge. Councilman Cox and Town Manager Johnston bundled off to the mid-west last January. They visited a dozen lagoons, large and small, in Missouri and Kansas They talked and had field visits accompanied by William Por ter, chief sanitary engineer of Jack son county. Mo.; Myron Nelson, chief sanitary engineer of Johnson county. Kan.: Ivan Shull, chief sani tary engineer of Kansas: and mem bers of the firm of Black and Vcatch. consulting engineers serv ing Kansas City, Mo. Talked to Many

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