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

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    PREFACE. In criticising the present project^ whicli does not profess to enter into details,, I hope the diflBculties under which it has been prepared will be borne in mind. I have had to work without any of the plans of the proposed railway, and without the survey of the lands on which the sewage is to be utilized. These papers have not been forwarded to me in England^ so that it has been impossible for me to go minutely into the subjects. The Scheme must be judged by its main features, which are : To completely separate the drainage from the sewage ; to allow the former to escape into the sea entirely by gravitation; to utilize the latter on land j and to remove the night-soil by a narrow-guage railway to the north-west of Trombay.* If the Bench approve of these, then detailed estimates for the sewers, for enlarging the sluices, and for the railway, can be prepared by their able Executive Engineer, Mr. Walton, in the course of two or three weeks. And if a survey of the land on which the Bench decide to utilize the sewage be sent to me, I shall be very glad to draw the designs for them, to show how the fields should be laid out, according to the best approved methods adopted now by so many towns in England. H. TULLOOH, Major. Koyal Engineers. 34, Victoria Koad, Kensington, 19th October, 1872. * It must be understood that I make this proposition simply because the Justices will not dispense with the halalcore system. My own opinion is, that the night-soil had much better be allowed to go into the sewers.