Gazetteer Volume 11 pdf

Gazetteer Volume 11 pdf

Gazetteer Volume 11 by Bombay

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Author: Bombay
Page Count: 264 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130549140
File Name: Gazetteer.Volume.11.pdf
Download Link: Gazetteer Volume 11
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...long, either from faulty construction or from bad masonry, serious leakage was found at the joints. This defect has to some extent been cured, but the masonry pipes are a doubtful success.1 The nine-inch main from the reservoir is laid alongside of the 1 As the contractor who laid the earthenware pipes put an insufficient quantity of cement in the joints, roots of trees found their way into the joints and choked them. In 1879, the pipes were cleared and the joints properly cemented, but even now (1883) there are constant leakages, and it is a moot point whether ultimately iron pipes will not have to be laid. Mr. T. S. Hamilton. C.B.; Professional Paper on Indian Enginwring, X. 41 No.CCCXLIX. B 663-33 Chapter XIV. Places of Interest. Alibag. Water Work. DISTRICTS. high road about a mile and a half, to a point in the town where three leading streets meet. On the way it supplies a large catUe-pond, a stone reservoir for the Mhars and others of low caste, and another for the little village of Chendra. Where the road crosses the salt swamp at the entrance to the town, arrangements are made to shut off the water from the town with a sluice, and by opening' a valve above it to scour the main from end to end. At the junction of the three streets the nine-inch main ceases, and three four-inch pipes branch from it down the three leading streets; these four-inch pipes change to three-inch and finally to two-inch pipes. At points ohosen by the townspeople are eighteen stone reservoirs, each holding one thousand gallons, fitted with self-acting ballcocks to keep the water in the reservoirs above level and prevent overflow. The reservoirs are from two and a half to four feet deep, built of dressed blocks of trap brought from the Kolaba fort, and lined inside with cement....

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