Article: SANITARY DISTRICT IS GUARDIAN OF HEALTH

PHOTO - 2 Ralph E. Rowley, president of the sanitary board, turns the first shovel of dirt at the Miller sewage disposal plant in December 1938. Others are, from left: Fred Eichhorn, board counsel; Boyd Phelps, board secretary; James Barrett, contractor; Harrison Walker, resident PWA engineer; Charles Cole, consulting engineer, and Frank Heydorn, Cole's resident engineer. (POST-TRIBUNE PHOTOGRAPH) The Gary Sanitary District's sewage treatment works is shown in this 1940 photograph. (POST-TRIBUNE PHOTOGRAPH)

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