Clean Water and How to Get It (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hazen, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440048452 ISBN 13: 9781440048456

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
facing page
Interior of covered pure-water reservoir at Washington, D. C.f before being filled with water. It is covered for the purpose of keeping the filtered water clean..........Frontispiece
The Old Croton Dam. This view was taken before the filling of the New Croton Dam, which now entirely submerges the old dam............................................ 2
High Bridge in 1907. Built about 1840 to carry Croton water
across the Harlem River to New York City............. 2
The new Croton Dam holding back water for the supply of
New York City...................................... 4
One of the Boston Pumping Stations....................... 8
Wachusett Dam of the Metropolitan Water Works for Boston
and Suburbs........................................ 8
Tubercles Growing in Iron Water-pipes..................... 60
An early type of Mechanical Filter at Chattanooga, Tenn..... 76
The Little Falls Filters of the East Jersey Water Compa

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Page; CHAPTER I; Impounding Reservoir Suppliesi; CHAPTER II; Water Supplies from Small Lakes 26; CHAPTER III Supplies from the Great Lakes 29; CHAPTER IV Water Suppliesfrom Rivers 32; CHAPTER V; Ground Water Supplies 42; CHAPTER VI; On the Action of Water on Iron Pipes and the; Effect thereof on the Quality of the Water 59; CHAPTER VII Development of Water Purification in America 67; CHAPTER VIII On the Nature of the Methods of Purifying Water 82; viii; CONTENTS; Pace; CHAPTER IX; On the Application of the Methods of Water Purification, Arranged According to the Mat-; ters to bk Removed by the Treatment 92; CHAPTER X; Storage of Filtered Water 114; CHAPTER XI; On the Required Sizils of Filters and Other; Parts of Water Works 116; CHAPTER XII; As to the Pressure under which Water is to be Delivered 123; CHAPTER XIII On t

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1440048452
• ISBN 13: 9781440048456
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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