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The Proceedings of the Second All-India Sanitary Conference Held at Madras November 11th to 16th 1912: Engineering

1913

The causes of the breakdown of the system were in the first instance the inpfficient capacity of the pumps at Rayapuram to deal with the sewage which came to them and secondly the inadequacy of the sewers to convey the sewage to the pumping stations. [...] A sewage Level and Pump Pressure Recording apparatus will also be fixed at each station so arranged that one diagram shows continuously both the depth of the sewage in the pump wells below the centre of the pumps and also the pressure above the centres of the pumps against which the pumps work. [...] The bottom of the movable pipe is kept close to the surface of the silt and liquid in rushing up the pipe scours away the silt and carries it up end out along the branch settling basin where the clear liquid is siphoned off and the deposited silt is subsequently shovelled into carts. [...] The whole of the ultimate sewage of South Tondiarpet plus the whole of the sewage of Georgetown having a total population of about 280 000 will be delivered into the chamber forming the top end of the 4 feet 6 inches sewer. [...] The following rules have been followed in laying out the system :— (1) The sizes of sewers in all cases have been fixed so as to be capable of carrying off in six hours half the whole daily quantity of sewage of the anticipated population of 196o of the areas drained by them plus an allowance for rainfall equal to one-third of the maximum flow in some cases where the nature of the district rende
urban studies
Pages
88
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141013
Segment Pages Author Actions
Prefatory note
i-iv unknown view
Description of the Madras City Drainage Works in Spected by Members of the Second All-India Sanitary Conference
1-3 J. W. Madeley view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. Madras City Drainage Works
1-22 unknown view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. The Simla Hydroelectric Scheme
1-3 unknown view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. Sanitary Problems in Madras
1-7 unknown view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. Some Differences Between English and Indian Sanitary Engineering Practice
1-5 unknown view
Note on Sanitation in India
1-4 Chas Mandy view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. Note on Dust Prevention
1-2 unknown view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. The Prevention of Dust in Indian City Roads and Streets
1-10 unknown view
Experimental Sand and Mechanical Filters. King Institute Guindy
1-2 W. Hutton view
All India Sanitary Conference-Madras November 1912. Madras City Water-Supply
1-19 unknown view
The Water Supply of Conjeeveram
1-7 Hormusji Nowroji view

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