Report on a Public Water Supply for the City of Memphis, February 23, 1886 |
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aeration ammonia analysis APPROXIMATE ESTIMATE basin boilers bottom cast iron cent Clary clear water coagulant COLTON GREENE condition Cone Outlet valves cone valves Contingencies and omissions cost of maintenance distributing reservoir ESTIMATE OF COST examined expense filter bed filtering material filtration fire hydrant corner flow force main Gate valves Hermany Horn Lake Creek Horn Lake Pass Hyatt filter increased Inlet pipe James E James Ryan Jere Sullivan levee Louisville and Nashville malarial Memphis Water miles million gallons Mississippi River Mississippi water NAPOLEON HILL Nashville Nashville Railway October 20 operation organic matter Outlet pipe Outlet system P.M. Witnesses plant population pounds water pressure proposed pumping engines pumping station rainfall revenue Ryan and Jere source of supply South Horn Lake Stand Pipe stream Street surface thence tion turbid typhoid fever washing the filtering Waste pipe water of Wolf WOLF RIVER PLAN Wolf river water wrought iron
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Page 17 - Board take such action as mav be necessary for the passage of a law at the next session of the...
Page 10 - Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that, in view of the national and International character of radio broadcasting, the establishment and enforcement of suitable regulations to govern the erection and operation of broadcasting stations are matters which come under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, and therefore this committee recoi...
Page 37 - But it has a well developed seasonal tide in its prevalence, which spreads its maximum in this cou ntry over the latter half of the third and the first part of the last quarter of the year. Dr. Baker, of Michigan, has shown that in his State this increased prevalence follows a low stage of water in the wells, when sewage inflow is less diluted than at other seasons. But the same period of prevalence holds good in the cities which have a general water supply, corresponding with the time when the sewage...
Page 34 - Pearson, Constructing Engineer, it was ingeniously made to appear, by inference, that the analysis conducted by Prof. Joseph M. Locke and Mr. Jno. Locke, MD, was an analysis of the water taken at or near the present pumping station, when, in point of fact, the water examined and recommended by these chemists was collected by Mr. A. W. Gloster, CE, of Hermany*s staff, from the river near Massey*s farm, 7 3-10 miles above Raleigh.
Page 43 - ... to the full. But the most careful surveillance will fail to exclude the malarial possibilities associated with the vegetable matter of an otherwise healthful surface. To remove these, nature's process of filtration must be imitated. Thus only will a water be obtained free from the danger of typhoid fever on the one hand, and of malarial...
Page 59 - A transcript of my notes taken at the time of boring, giving the various deposits passed through to the basin and plan of water, is as follows : Given in tenths — 1st.
Page 59 - Quicksand (light sand and water). 20 ft. Brown clay and water. 100 ft. Greyish brown clay (grey sand in the clay). 20 ft. White sand and pure water at this point, and for two feet down2 ft. warl water was taken for the Natatorium.
Page 21 - The popular theory that the bosom of the earth, i( that mysterious seat of so many fantastical images," holds an inexhaustible supply of pure water, when put to the crucial test of patient and exact investigation, becomes a -delusive fancy.
Page 37 - ... last quarter of the year. Dr. Baker, of Michigan, has shown that in his State this increased prevalence follows a low stage of water in the wells, when sewage inflow is less diluted than at other seasons. But the same period of prevalence holds good in the cities which have a general water supply, corresponding with the time when the sewage inflow into the streams is in like manner undiluted. Again, in looking at the typhoid statistics of certain cities, in which the complicating elements appear...
Page 36 - The water at this time was very turbid, yellow and highly charged with fine particles of clay held in suspension.