The railroad and engineering journal (1887) (14735367586)

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Identifier: railroadengineer62newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the plan and conditions of a system of sewers.The fact is, that the amount of water coming from water-closets is relatively smaller in comparison to the total dis-charge bv which the capacity of the work must be fixed ;and, as to the measures taken to secure a regular fiow andto prevent deposits, the existence of foul water whichusually becomes a source of disease would be sufficient,either with or without the admission of water for flushingthe sewers, to render such precaution altogether indis-pensable, even where no water-closets exist. An eminent English engineer, Mr. Lindley, who has de-signed some important works of this kind in Germany,having been asked by the authorities of Eberfeld to pre-sent two plans for sewerage of that city, one with and theother without the admission of water from closets, an-swered, with good reason, that a single plan would be suffi-cient, because the system of sewers would be the same ineither case. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 210 THE RAILROAD AND (May, 1888.
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