| William Laxton - Architecture - 1865 - 484 pages
...Captain Burstal, RN, and the author, which proved that it was essential to go as far as Barking-creek, and that the discharge should take place at or near...low water. With respect to the velocity of flow and tile minimum fall, it was difficult to lay down any general rule, because the condition of sewers,... | |
| William Laxton - Architecture - 1854 - 608 pages
...to discharge at as remote a point as Barking Creek, and at about high water. We would here observe, that the delivery of the sewage at high water into...equivalent to its discharge at low water at a point twelve miles lower down the river; therefore the construction of twelve miles of sewers is saved by... | |
| Industrial arts - 1857 - 696 pages
...discharge at low water, at a poinl twelve miles lower down the river : therefore the construction of twelve miles of sewer is saved, by discharging the sewage at high, instead of low water. 1 will now point out on this large plan the works proposed for the south side of the Thames.... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1865 - 652 pages
...excessive floods. As regards the time of discharge, it is demonstrated by the same series of experiments that — " The delivery of the sewage at high water...saved by discharging the sewage at high instead of low water." As to the velocity of flow and the minimum fall, though it is necessary to economize the... | |
| Sir Joseph William Bazalgette - 1865 - 46 pages
...excessive floods. As regards the time of discharge, it is demonstrated by the same series of experiments that — "The delivery of the sewage at high water...the river, therefore the construction of 12 miles of sywer is saved by discharging the sewage at high instead of low water." As to the velocity of flow... | |
| Science - 1879 - 680 pages
...high water, as the springs strengthen, and down the river two miles a day as they fall off." Again : that " the delivery of the sewage at high water into...equivalent to its discharge at low water at a point twelve miles lower down the river ; therefore the construction of twelve miles of sewer is saved by... | |
| Julius Walker Adams - Drainage - 1880 - 248 pages
...excessive floods. As regards the time of discharge, it is demonstrated by the same series of experiments that — " The delivery of the sewage at high water...saved by discharging. the sewage at high instead of low water." As to the velocity of flow and the minimum fall, though it is necessary to economize the... | |
| Julius Walker Adams - Drainage - 1880 - 248 pages
...excessive floods. As regards the time of discharge, it is demonstrated by the same series of experiments that — "The delivery of the sewage at high water...lower down the river ; therefore the construction of 18 miles of sewer is saved by discharging the sewage at high instead of low water." As to the velocity... | |
| George Drysdale Dempsey - Drainage - 1890 - 430 pages
...experiments it was also proved, as stated in the report of Mr. Eobert Stephenson and Sir William Cubitt, "that the delivery of the sewage at high water into...equivalent to its discharge at low water at a point twelve miles lower down the river ; therefore," it is added, " the instruction of twelve miles of sewerage... | |
| Julius Walker Adams - Sewerage - 1894 - 262 pages
...excessive floods. As regards the time of discharge, it is demonstrated 'by the same series of experiments that— " The delivery of the sewage at high water...discharge at low water at a point 12 miles lower down theriver ; therefore the construction of 12 miles of sewer is saved hy discharging the sewage at high... | |
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