Sewage Disposal in the United StatesVan Nostrand, 1900 - 598 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
acid acre albuminoid albuminoid ammonia algæ alumina ammonia amount of sewage analyses animals applied average bacteria beds Board of Health Boston broad irrigation brook cent chemical chlorine contained copperas cost crops cubic cubic centimetre daily diameter discharge disease drain drainage effect effluent Ensilage Entomostraca excrements experiments feet ferric filter flow gallons given grass Hemlock lake inches increase intercepting sewers intermittent filtration irrigation lake land lime Lockport manufacturing Massachusetts material mean miles mills months nitrates nitrification nitrogen nuisance organic matter outfall outlet oxide Passaic Passaic river phosphoric acid pipe plant pollution pond population portion pounds precipitation present pumpage pumping rainfall reason removed Report Rept river sand sanitary sewage disposal sewage farm sewage purification sewers sludge soil solution stream sulphate surface TABLE tank temperature tion town treatment typhoid typhoid fever underdrains waste water supply Worcester
Popular passages
Page 584 - SECT. 2. The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State. They shall have...
Page 93 - Every owner of land, through which a stream of water flows, is entitled to the use and enjoyment of the water, and to have the same flow in its natural and accustomed course without obstruction, diversion or corruption. The right extends to the quality as well as to the quantities of the water. If, therefore, an adjoining proprietor corrupts the water, an action upon the case lies for the injury.
Page 569 - Save as aforesaid, it includes " rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and watercourses, " other than watercourses at the passing of this Act " mainly used as sewers, and emptying directly into " the sea, or tidal waters which have not been deter" mined to be streams within the meaning of this " Act by such order as aforesaid...
Page 111 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well-ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 101 - Suffolk, a description of the lands or easements so taken as certain as is required in a common conveyance of lands, and a statement that the same are taken pursuant to the provisions of this act ; which said description and statement shall be signed by the mayor of said city...
Page 582 - ... by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or by both at the discretion of the court...
Page 107 - It has never been deemed essential that the entire community or any considerable portion of it should directly enjoy or participate in an improvement or enterprise, in order to constitute a public use, within the true meaning of these words as used in the constitution. Such an interpretation would greatly narrow and cripple the authority of the legislature...
Page 584 - No sewage, drainage, refuse or polluting matter, of such kind and amount as either by itself or in connection with other matter will corrupt or impair the quality of the water of any pond or stream...
Page 258 - Broad irrigation means the distribution of sewage over a large surface of ordinary agricultural ground, having in view a maximum growth of vegetation (consistently with due purification) for the amount of sewage supplied.
Page 101 - ... other ponds and streams so far as may be necessary for the preservation and purity of the same, for the purpose of furnishing a supply of pure water for the said city of Boston.