Dublin main drainage scheme : souvenir handbook ; published by the authority of the Municipal Council to mark the inauguration of the Dublin main drainage, September, 1906.
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Dublin main drainage scheme : souvenir handbook ; published by the authority of the Municipal Council to mark the inauguration of the Dublin main drainage, September, 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 24 / 124 (page 6)…n district of Grangegorman, and New Kilmainham township, together with the City of Dublin as it then existed, and convey it to the Pigeon House to be treated there. Since then these districts, together with the comparative small additions of Chapelizod village and a small portion of the rural district of C...
- Found on image 27 / 124 (page 7)…heir internal drainage, the scheme as designed merely enabling the Cor- poration to take their sewage and drainage into the Corporation system and so treat it. Clontarf drainage will be dealt with by an intercepting sewer running along the foreshore, and together with that coming from Drumcondra, will be...
- Found on image 44 / 124 (page 14)…they were by the said Act permitted to send victuals to the said Irish; to let to farm, and sell the profits of their lands to them, to intercommune, treat, and be conversant with them, as well in war as in peace; and that they might be godfathers to the aforesaid Irish, without any offence or breach of l...
- Found on image 60 / 124 (page 28)… were to have been at the Eastern extremity of the East wall and at the mouth of the River Dodder; the other outfalls were into the Liffey itself. No treatment of the sewage was intended. It is interesting to note that the estimate of cost was ,£104,597. Mr. Parke Neville did not regard the intercepting sewe...
- Found on image 61 / 124 (page 29)…on was to be at Annesley Bridge, and there were to be storage tanks on the North Bull Wall. The sewage was to be discharged after storage without any treatment. In that report occurs the following significant passage :— “ The borough of Dublin does not include within its boundaries all the populous districts ...
- Found on image 69 / 124 (page 33)…ported on the proposed works. In their report they expressed the opinion that the sewage of Pembroke and Rathmines, which then flowed and still flows untreated into the harbour, should be received and treated along with the sewage of Dublin. They made various suggestions as to the proposed Dublin works (Sir ...
- Found on image 69 / 124 (page 33)…expressed the opinion that the sewage of Pembroke and Rathmines, which then flowed and still flows untreated into the harbour, should be received and treated along with the sewage of Dublin. They made various suggestions as to the proposed Dublin works (Sir Charles Cameron dissenting) which were not accept...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…tee have come to the unanimous conclusion that it would be a public advantage if there were one administration to control the drainage and sewers and treatment of the sewage of Dublin and the townships. They think that it would be absurd if one part of the sewage were treated at Pigeon House Fort and other p...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…ol the drainage and sewers and treatment of the sewage of Dublin and the townships. They think that it would be absurd if one part of the sewage were treated at Pigeon House Fort and other parts discharged a little distance away within the sea walls of the Bay without corresponding treatment. They are also...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)… the sewage were treated at Pigeon House Fort and other parts discharged a little distance away within the sea walls of the Bay without corresponding treatment. They are also of opinion that the whole community benefits by the great works now being carried out for purifying the Liffey, and they recommend that...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…atters being conveyed to sea by a vessel built for the purpose. The report pointed out that no seaport town of any impor- tance in the United Kingdom treats its sewage by a better method than is proposed in Dublin, the usual course being to discharge the sewage into the sea without any treatment. Here the...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…ited Kingdom treats its sewage by a better method than is proposed in Dublin, the usual course being to discharge the sewage into the sea without any treatment. Here the sewage will be purified to a certain degree of purity which is sufficient for the circumstances and which may be regarded as the economical ...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…cumstances and which may be regarded as the economical limit. This could not harm the shell-fish, which now suffer from the discharge of crude sewage untreated in any way. The capacity of the harbour is such that, at high water of spring tides the volume of the clarified effluent will only be 1/1,470th part ...
- Found on image 71 / 124 (page 35)…d water, not taken into account in these figures, will play an important part in completing the process of purification. In defending the proposal to treat the sewage of Dublin by chemical precipitation the 86 report proceeds to examine the various artificial or bacterial methods of sewage purification w...
- Found on image 77 / 124 (page 37)… was 290,638. The ultimate daily flow of sewage in dry weather is estimated at 14 J million gallons. It is intended to take into the sewers, pump and treat the rainwater at the rate of a quarter of an inch falling in 24 hours. This, together with the sewage, will make a total flow to be pumped in wet wea...
- Found on image 84 / 124 (page 40)…ded in the sludge tank to draw off as much of the top liquor’.as possible. The liquor so drawn oft’ will be pumped back to the sewer and will undergo retreatment with the sewage. The sludge remaining in the storage tank will be pumped to a high-level tank and delivered in the sludge vessel, “ The Shamrock,” wh...
- Found on image 98 / 124 (page 48)…e as sodium chloride is probably derived from the gut factories in the neighbourhood, as the intes- tines of animals in these factories are liberally treated with salt. The suspended matter included 3 5 grains of cellulose and distinct traces of starch. No. 3. Fitzwilliam Street.—-Sewer at Baggot Street.—O...
- Found on image 109 / 124 (page 57)…owan intimated that before he could close the inquiry expert evidence should be produced to satisfy him with regard to the efficiency of the chemical treatment, and the general capacity of the works to meet the requirements of the City, and also the drainage of the added areas. He, therefore, adjourned the in...
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