The drainage and sewerage of Bombay : being a report submitted to the Bench of Justices of that city / by their Executive Engineer Hector Tulloch.

  • Tulloch, Hector.
Date:
1872
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    Chapter II. SCHEMES OF DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE ALREADY PROPOSED. It is no intention of mine to give the Justices a history of all that has previously been proposed with regard to the drainage of the town. Even if I had the wish, I have not the materials for the purpose. At the same time, it is necessary, for the proper understanding of the subject, that the Justices should be informed of the main features of such schemes as have from time to time been put forward. And by schemes I mean complete engineering projects for dram- age, not mere proposals to remove local nuisances or to drain particular districts. I mean comprehensive designs treating the subject as a whole. Practically, then, there have been only four schemes suggested for the drainage of Bombay. The first was put forward by Mr. Tracey in the year 1861. The second was proposed by Mt. Aitken in the year 1866. The third was proposed in 1868 by M^. Rawliuson, C.B,, the eminent hydrauHc and sanitary engineer in England, to whom Mr. Aitken's Report was submitted by the Secretary of State for India. This is the scheme subsequently amplified and worked out by me in the latter part of the same year. The fourth scheme, if it can be called by this name, was that proposed by Mr. Sowerby, of Surat, in 1868, while I was engaged on the previous one.