Water-supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey, Issues 17-23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 |
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20 feet alfalfa amount angle of weather appropriation average blue board of health border bottom branch cent Centerville channel clay constructed cost Creek discharge Ditch.-This diversion drainage east engineer enter rock farm feet deep feet in depth feet of drift feet wide filter flow Fresno Canal friction furrows gallons GEOLOGICAL SURVEY head gate inches irrigation irrigation district Kaweah River Kern Island Kern River Kings River Lake levees load main canal maximum Merced Merced River miles long moraine north side penetrates plain pollution portion Poso Creek pound purification regulator reservoir ridges sails San Joaquin River San Joaquin Valley sand and gravel second-feet sewage disposal Slough small ditch soil south side southwesterly square miles Stanislaus River stream surface tion tributaries Tulare Tulare Lake Tule River upper Velocity of wind vicinity Visalia Wabash water supply weir wind wheel
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Page 85 - SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : A Guide to the Construction of Works for the Prevention of the Pollution by Sewage of Rivers and Estuaries. BY W. SANTO CRIMP, M.lNST.CE. FGS, Late Assistant-Engineer, London County Council "Probably the MOST COMPLETE AND REST TREATISE on the subject which has appeared in our language.
Page 89 - Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins).
Page 10 - ... that I verily believe him to be a credible person and the person he represents himself to be, and that this affidavit was subscribed and sworn to before me at my office in...
Page 90 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 88 - ... report of the results of an examination made in 1880 of several sewerage works in Europe ; report in favor of the fungoid origin of diphtheria. There have been, he said, hostile agencies combined to overthrow the National Board of Health, and we will refer to a few of them :
Page 9 - State (a) the date of the survey of the ditch or other distributing works through which the water claimed is diverted; (b) the date when the construction of such ditch was begun and when completed.
Page 5 - LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, DIVISION OF MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES, Washington, I).
Page 26 - ... curve at any point showing the per cent, of material finer than the size indicated at the bottom of the diagram. The lines representing the diameters are spaced according to the logarithms of the diameters of the particles, as in this way materials of corresponding uniformity in the range of sizes of their particles give equally steep curves, regardless of the absolute sizes of the particles, thus greatly facilitating a comparison of different materials.
Page 12 - These meadows cover an area of 3,662 acres. Of this surface hardly more than 600 acres appear to be in a condition adapted to profitable agriculture. From the remaining territory crops of hay are obtained occasionally, or not at all. The condition of the meadows seems to have grown worse in recent years, and many of the larger owners have abandoned the attempt to secure some degree of drainage by the maintenance of open ditches...
Page 42 - The total length of sewers laid to the end of 1895 was a trine over 22 miles. The amount of sewage is not definitely known. A measurement on May 12, 1892, indicated about 30,000 gallons per day; on May 25, 1892, after heavy rains, the flow was 790,000 gallons per day. No attempt has thus far been made to raise crops on the filter areas. The results obtained in purification have been satisfactory; over 95 per cent of the organic matter, as represented by the albuminoid ammonia, having been removed....