A short description of the plans of Captain James Vetch for the sewerage of the metropolis |
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A Short Description of the Plans of Captain James Vetch for the Sewerage of ... Lewis Dunbar B Gordon No preview available - 2019 |
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14 miles abstracted amount animal and vegetable aqueduct Blackfriars Bridge Blackwall Bow Creek Canal Captain Vetch catch-water drain chalk valley channel chiefly fed Clerkenwell Colne conceive constitute the River convey course cube feet Deptford descent distance district evils extending feet above high-water feet above Trinity feet per diem feet per mile feet per minute Field's Weir Fleet River flow foul fresh water gradient gravitating system Hertford impurities inches per mile increase invert line of sewer main sewers main stream main trunk Mapledurham Metropolis miles per hour millions cubic feet natural drainage outfall point of discharge pollution population principle proposed pumping quantity of sewage quantity of water Rickmansworth River Colne river Darenth River Lea River Thames sewage sewerage south side Southwark Stort supply of water surface Teddington Weir Thames embankment Thames water tidal compartment tide town Trinity high-water mark tunnels vegetable matter velocity Verulam Ware Water Companies weather