Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. With Illustrations in the Text, and
Thirty-Seven Plates. Large 8vo. Handsome Cloth, 30s.
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, Mem. Inst. C.E., F.G.S.,
Late Assistant-Engineer to the London County Council.
SECOND EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED.
- PART I.—Introductory.
- Introduction.
- Details of River Pollutions and Recommendations of Various Commissions.
- Hourly and Daily Flow of Sewage.
- The Pail System as Affecting Sewage.
- The Separation of Rain-water from the Sewage Proper.
- Settling Tanks.
- Chemical Processes.
- The Disposal of Sewage-sludge.
- The Preparation of Land for Sewage Disposal.
- Table of Sewage Farm Management.
- PART II.—Sewage Disposal Works in Operation—Their Construction, Maintenance, and Cost.
Illustrated by Plates showing the General Plan and Arrangement adopted in each District. - London.
- Doncaster Irrigation Farm.
- Beddington Irrigation Farm, Borough of Croydon.
- Bedford Sewage Farm Irrigation.
- Dewsbury and Hitchin Intermittent Filtration.
- Merton, Croydon Rural Sanitary Authority.
- Rochester, Kent, and Swanwick, Derbyshire.
- The Ealing Sewage Works.
- Chiswick.
- Kingston-on-Thames, A.B.C. Process.
- Salford Sewage Works.
- Bradford, Precipitation.
- New Malden, Chemical Treatment and Small Filters.
- Friern Barnet.
- Acton, Ferozone and Polarite Process.
- Ilford, Chadwell, and Dagenham Sewage Disposal Works.
- Coventry.
- Wimbledon.
- Birmingham.
- Margate.
- Portsmouth.
- Berlin.
- Sewage Precipitation Works, Dortmund (Germany).
- Treatment of Sewage by Electrolysis.
“All persons interested in Sanitary Science owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Crimp. . . . His work will be especially useful to Sanitary Authorities and their advisers . . . EMINENTLY PRACTICAL AND USEFUL . . . gives plans and descriptions of MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SEWAGE WORKS of England . . . with very valuable information as to the cost of construction and working of each. . . . The carefully-prepared drawings permit of an easy comparison between the different systems.”—Lancet.
“Probably the BEST AND MOST COMPLETE TREATISE on the subject which has appeared in our language. . . . Will prove of the greatest use to all who have the problem of Sewage Disposal to face. . . . The general construction, drawings, and type are all excellent.”—Edinburgh Medical Journal.