Volume 5

Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1898 to inquire and report what methods of treating and disposing of sewage (including any liquid from any factory or manufacturing process) may properly be adopted.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal.
Date:
1902-1915
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1898 to inquire and report what methods of treating and disposing of sewage (including any liquid from any factory or manufacturing process) may properly be adopted. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/1346 (page 14)
    STORM WATER SEWAGE: 24942 26013 14 (3.) AR? THE AMOUNTS OF SUSPENDED SOLIDS IN Sewace IycrReASED OR D:MINISHED IN TIMES OF SToRM (coninued). Messrs. Watson & O'Shaughnessy (Birmingham): Yes: suspended solids have risen from thirty-eight parts to 380 parts per 100,000 within an hour, owing to sudden storm. Messrs. Willcox & Raikes: Yes: amount of suspended solids is increased by road detritus and accumula- tions washed out of sewers.