Purification of water-carried sewage : data for the guidance of corporations, local boards of health and sanitary authorities / by Henry Robinson and John Charles Melliss.

Date:
1877
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Credit: Purification of water-carried sewage : data for the guidance of corporations, local boards of health and sanitary authorities / by Henry Robinson and John Charles Melliss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Places where irrigation has been entertained and the idea abandoned. Near Alnwick, the Duke of Northumberland put down machinery and pipes over some 270 acres of mixed land, and applied sewage in various quantities to all kinds of crops; but although the tenants got the sewage free of cost, the whole arrangement has been abandoned, the bailiff of the district reporting unfavourably on the use of liquid sewage for corn or any rotation crops.1 Coventry.—The reasons for abandoning the idea of irrigation are stated at page 38. Edmonton.—The local authorities purchased 113 .]> acres of gravelly land for 13,613/. for irrigation purposes, and now only partially irrigate on 30 acres, having supplemented it by a precipitation process, 8 acres ot the land being used for filtration of the effluent water, a reference to which is made elsewhere. Liverpool.—A company was formed, in 1866, with a view of irrigating a portion of the sea-shore known as the Crossby Sands. The contract to take the sewage was for a term of 25 years, and although considerable expense was incurred by the company in the erection of a pumping station and mains, the work has been abandoned. Richmond.—In 1850, a proposal was made to irrigate the Deer Park with sewage, but it was disallowed by the Government. West Ham.—The authorities sought to dispose of the selvage by irrigation, but Government refused to sanction it. A pumping station and precipitating tanks have been erected at a cost of 7,700/.,2 but the sewage is pumped