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Title: The Surveyor and municipal engineer
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering Engineering Great Britain
Publisher: London, Temple Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. pump, thus avoiding starting the larger pumpingplant unnecessarily. The original centrifugal sludge pump was replacedin 1910, after about twenty-five years service. Onemaker fixed two pumps which choked with tin-sludge; and another well-known firm, after quoting,declined to accept the responsibility of working withsludge. A Gwynnes Invincible was then fixedand acts admirably. It is run by a 20-horse powerRobey steam engine, which also supplies power forthe lathe, drilling and other machines, all repairsbeing done on the premises. Electricity for lighting haunches. The cost complete, including the removingof the old*oad crust, is aboul 2s 6d per square yard, made up as follows: — Scarifying and removing old surface 1.6 Granite, tar binder and chippings 1 11.5 Team labour 2.5 Manual labour and plant charges 1.5 Steam rolling ... 15 2 6.6The system was found to answer admirably, beingquickly laid, and deluges of rain while the work wasin progress having no effect upon the result. The
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SCALE OF FEET. Fig. 6.—General Plan of Sewage Disposal Works. is generated at the works by a small steam engine of5J-horse power. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. There are 7) miles of main roads and 13 miles ofdistrict roads in the city. Flints are plentiful aroundSalisbury, and this accounts for the fact that whenthe author commenced duties, six years ago, therewas not a square yard of granite in the city. Someof the heavily trafficked roads were therefore costly tomaintain. In January, 1909, 300 tons of water-boundgranite were laid on the main roads, and since thenresurfacing has been carried out with granite, boundwith Taigranix. The thickness averages 3 in.,being two stones thick at tlie crown and one at the first roads, laid four years ago, are still in excellentcondition, although subject to heavy traffic. Abouta mile of main road has been resurfaced, and theallowance by the county council is now between 600and 700 tons per annum. The amounts allowedby the county council for the .past two

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