Sessional Papers, Volume 34, Part 1H.M. Stationery Office, 1901 |
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acid acre action aeration aërobic albuminoid ammonia amount anaerobic anaerobic organisms analyses artificial filters artificial filtration average bacteria capacity carbon carbonic acid Caterham cent chemical chlorine clay coke Colonel Harding course crude sewage deal dilution discharged district drains Exeter experiments fermentation filter beds flow gallons give Government Board grains per gallon Henry Roscoe Joint Committee Killick land filtration lime liquid Local Government Board Major-General Carey Manchester manufacturers material means ment Mersey and Irwell Michael Foster nitrates nitrogen obtained organic matter outfall oxygen absorbed pass permanganate Pollution Prevention Act practically precipitation present Professor Foster Professor Ramsay purification putrefaction quantity question regard samples sanitary authority septic tank sewage disposal sewage effluent sewage farm sewers Sir Richard Thorne sludge solid matter standard storm water stream surface suspended matter tank effluent tion trade refuse treated treatment
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Page iv - First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (River Thames). 2 vols. fol. London, 1866. First Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins), fol.
Page 46 - Provided that this section shall not extend to compel any sanitary or other local authority to admit into their sewers any liquid which would prejudicially affect such sewers, or the disposal by sale, application to land, or otherwise of the sewage matter conveyed along such sewers, or which would from its tcmlxsrature or otherwise be injurious in a sanitary point of view.
Page 7 - Every Sanitary or other Local Authority " having sewers under their control shall give facilities for " enabling manufacturers within their district to carry the " liquids proceeding from their factories or manufacturing
Page 6 - Where any sewage matter falls or flows or is carried into any stream along a channel used, constructed, or in process of construction at the date of the passing of...
Page xviii - River, or they may cause the Refuse from such Sewers to be conveyed by a proper Channel to the most convenient Site for its Collection and Sale for agricultural or other Purposes, as may be deemed most expedient, but so that the same shall in no Case become a Nuisance.
Page 7 - Provided also, that no sanitary authority shall be required to give such facilities as aforesaid where the sewers of such authority are only sufficient for the requirements of their district, nor where such facilities would interfere with any order of any court of competent jurisdiction respecting the sewage of such authority.
Page v - We are, however, forced to conclude that peat and stiff clay lands are generally unsuitable for the purification of sewage, that their use for this purpose is always attended with difficulty, and that where the depth of top soil is very small, say six inches or less, the area of such lands which would be required for efficient purification would in certain cases be so great as to render land treatment impracticable.