| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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