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" ... designed to dispose of sewage and storm water from such a varied area is necessarily of a complicated nature. The system was established with the principal object of intercepting and conveying, as far as practicable by gravitation, to points of discharge... "
The London journal of arts and sciences (and repertory of patent inventions ... - Page 289
edited by - 1865
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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volume 28

William Laxton - Architecture - 1865 - 484 pages
...all times, except during extraordinary floods; and that it should afford to the low-lying districts a sufficiently deep outfall to allow of every house...together with so much of the rain-fall mixed with it as could be reasonably dealt with, so as to divert it from the river near London; the substitution...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 24

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1865 - 636 pages
...drainage at ail times, except during extraordinary storms, and to afford to the low-lying districts a sufficiently deep outfall to allow of every house being effectually relieved of its fluid refuse. For centuries there had existed Sewers Commissions appointed by the Government, and irresponsible to...
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On the Main Drainage of London, and the Interception of the Sewage from the ...

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette - 1865 - 46 pages
...drainage at all times, except during extraordinary storms, and to afford to the low-lying districts a sufficiently deep outfall to allow of every house being effectually relieved of its fluid refuse. For centuries there had existed Sewers Commissions appointed by the Government, and irresponsible to...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 11

Science - 1879 - 680 pages
...drainage at all times, except during extraordinary storms, and to afford to the low-lying districts a sufficiently deep outfall to allow of every house being effectually relieved of its fluid refuse." Again : " For centuries there had existed Sewers Commissions appointed by the Government, and irresponsible...
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 25

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1866 - 646 pages
...appointed Engineer to the Board, was instructed to prepare a plan, in which the objects to be attained were the interception, as far as practicable by gravitation,...together with so much of the rainfall mixed with it as could be reasonably dealt with, so as to divert it from the river in and near London ; the substitution...
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