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Natural & Artificial Sewage Treatment
Alfred Stowell Jones and H. Alfred Roechling
109 pages~2 hr 11 min read13 chapters$4.99
How does a city clean the water it fouls? Alfred Stowell Jones tackles the great sanitary question of the nineteenth century, from the self-purifying power of soil to the engineered filter beds that spared rivers. A clear, sober look at where waste actually goes. Foundational reading on the plumbing that made modern cities livable.
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13 chapters
- 1SEWAGE TREATMENT
- 2LIEUT.-COL. ALFRED S. JONES, V.C.
- 3PREFACE.
- 4I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
- 5II. THE SEWAGE QUESTION DURING THE LAST CENTURY.
- 6III. THE SUBSOIL.
- 7IV. SELF-PURIFYING POWERS OF SOIL. NATURAL SELF-PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.
- 8V. ARTIFICIAL SELF-PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.
- 9VI. MANAGEMENT OF PLANTS FOR THE ARTIFICIAL SELF-PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.
- 10VII. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEPOSITION OF SUSPENDED MATTERS IN TANKS.
- 11VIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
- 12POSTSCRIPT.
- 13Transcriber’s Note:
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