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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911
American Society of Civil Engineers and E. D. Hardy
164 pages~3 hr 16 min read9 chapters$4.99
How do you make a city's water safe to drink? This engineering paper reports on the Washington, D.C. water purification plant and its operating results, followed by expert discussion. A technical record from the profession that built modern sanitation. Read the nuts and bolts of early large-scale water treatment, straight from the engineers.
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9 chapters
- 1AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
- 2INSTITUTED 1852
- 3TRANSACTIONS
- 4Paper No. 1191
- 5WATER PURIFICATION PLANT, WASHINGTON, D. C. RESULTS OF OPERATION.1
- 6With Discussion by Messrs. Allen Hazen, George A. Johnson, Morris Knowles, George C. Whipple, F. F. Longley, and E. D. Hardy.
- 7DISCUSSION
- 8Experiments in Filter Cleaning.
- 9Physical Theory of Purification of Water by Slow Sand Filters.
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