Sanitary engineeringE. & F.N. Spon, 1877 - 429 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acres adopted aërated alumina ammonia amount arrangement average ball valve carbonic acid cent chalk character charcoal chemical cistern clay cleansing closet handle collected condition containing cost cubic depth diameter discharged disposal districts drainage drains Drawing dwellings effect effluent effluent water exist feet filter filtration flushing gallons ground guano gully impurity inches intermittent filtration irrigation Joseph Bazalgette land lime liquid refuse liquid sewage London manholes manure means Merthyr Tydfil Messrs midden nitrogen obtained Oolites organic matter outfall outlet pass Piershill precipitation prevent pump purpose quantity of sewage quantity of water rainfall raised red sandstone removed Rivers Pollution Commissioners sandstone sanitary authority sanitary engineer Section sewage farming sewer gas sewerage shown by Fig shows sludge solid matter subsoil subsoil water sufficient surface waters tanks tion tons towns and villages trap tube under-drainage valve vegetation ventilation waste water supply water-closet water-tight
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - There is no river in the United Kingdom long enough to secure the oxidation and destruction of any sewage which may be discharged into it, even at its source.
Página 175 - Any liquid which shall exhibit by daylight a distinct colour when a stratum of it, one inch deep, is placed in a white porcelain or earthenware vessel. " (d) Any liquid which contains, in solution, in 100,000 parts by weight, more than two parts by weight of any metal except calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.
Página 174 - Save as aforesaid, it includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and watercourses, other than watercourses at the passing of this act mainly used as sewers, and emptying directly into the sea, or tidal waters which have not been determined to be streams within the meaning of this act by such order as aforesaid...
Página 44 - ... within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Página 13 - The temperature may be increased by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, and burning it from a safety jet.
Página 314 - Sewage traversing the soil undergoes a process to some extent analogous to that experienced by blood passing through the lungs in the act of breathing. A field of porous soil irrigated intermittently virtually performs an act of respiration, copying on an enormous scale the lung action of a breathing animal ; for it is alternately receiving and expiring air, and thus dealing as an oxidizing agent with the filthy fluid which is trickling through it.
Página 399 - Every communication-pipe for the conveyance of water to be supplied by the company into any premises shall have at or near _ its point of entrance into such premises, and if desired by the consumer within such premises, a sound and suitable stop-valve of the screw-down kind, with an area of waterway not less than that of a half-inch pipe, and not greater than that of the communication-pipe, the size of the valve within these limits being at the option of the consumer.
Página 174 - Every person who causes to fall or flow, or knowingly permits to fall or flow or to be carried into any stream any poisonous noxious or polluting liquid proceeding from any factory or manufacturing process, shall (subject as in this Act mentioned) be deemed to have committed an offence against this Act.
Página 395 - Act, or wrongfully fails to do anything which, under any of those provisions, ought to be done for the prevention of the waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water of such company...
Página 220 - ... decomposition, more or less of the putrefiable refuse which house-life, and some sorts of trade-life, produce ; excrement of man and brute, and garbage of all sorts, and ponded slop-waters, sometimes lying bare on the common surface ; sometimes unintentionally stored out of sight and recollection...