Historic Turning Points in Municipal Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal, 1850-1932
1850-1880: Urbanization and development of large public water supplies combined to overload cesspools and privy-vaults. Sewers were constructed to protect public health. 1880-1900: Debate...
Cost-Effectiveness of On-Site and Community Sewerage Alternatives
Some research and development work has taken place, over many years, on individual on-site treatment and disposal systems as well as non-conventional systems. Most recent work, however,...
Sewering the City of New York
The establishment of a centralized sewerage agency in 1963 has enabled the development of a program to upgrade and augment New York City's sewer system to meet the vital life...
Austin's 11-Mile Sewer Tunnel Reflects Sound Economic, Environmental Alternatives
An 11-mile long $20,000,000 concrete-lined continuous tunnel has just been completed across the City of Austin to serve as a sanitary sewer. Most of the tunnel is more than 100-ft (30.5-m)...
Polyethylene Pipe Solutions to Sewer Outfalls
One of the primary concerns of the Chief of Naval Operations is to insure that environmental pollution standards are met in this country and abroad at those naval bases near oceans or...
Highway Fill�� A Broad-Crested Weir
Hurricane Agnes in June, l972, destroyed the bridge over the Middle Patuxent River in Maryland which had suffered damages from several other storms. Replacement costs had to be kept low...
Discs Reduce Manhole Infiltration
The Department of Public Works for New Castle County, Del., conducted a study of infiltration at their over 30,000 sanitary sewer manholes. The study indicated that up to 60% of their...
A Fail-Safe Subaqueous Concrete Sewer
Describes the design and installation of a unique, tri-gasketed 87-in. (2210 mm) diameter reinforced concrete sewer force main. The total system is approximately 14,000 ft (4,300 m) long,...
Civil Engineering Classics
Outstanding Papers of Thomas R. Camp
In this volume of
An Analysis of National Basic Information Needs in Urban Hydrology
The
Design and Construction of Sanitary and Storm Sewers
This manual,
A Selected Bibliography on Construction Methods and Plant Applied to Bridges, Buildings, Dams, Hydro-Electric Plants, Roads, Sea-Wall, Sewers, Tunnels, Etc.
While several excellent books are available on various types of construction plant and construction methods, a large part of such information lies buried in individual and fugitive articles...
Definitions of Terms Used in Sewage and Sewage Disposal Practice
After several conferences were held to try to unify sewerage and sewage disposal practice terminology in 1926, there remained considerable differences of opinion. In the fall of 1926,...
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