A Plan For An Experimental Sewage Treatment Plant Classic Reprint

Author : Dunbar Dunbar
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ISBN 13 : 9781331948476
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Sewage Treatment (Classic Reprint) written by Dunbar Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles of Sewage Treatment During the last few years I have been repeatedly asked to write a comprehensive book on the sewage problem. About a year ago, when preparing a lecture on the then position of the subjects of river pollution and sewage treatment, I decided to abandon the scruples which I had previously held against writing such a book, f then thought the task was an easy one, for during the previous ten years or more I had carefully followed all matters connected with the sewage problem. However, I have had to make many inquiries and investigations, and my material has gradually become almost unlimited, so that it would now be easier for me to compile a work of reference than to write a short book on the principles of the subject. I do not consider the time ripe for the publication of a work of reference, because the whole problem of sewage disposal is developing just now at such a rapid rate that opinions which have been held for a very long time are daily giving way in the face of newly-established facts. Under these circumstances, those who have not been able to follow the separate phases of this development become hopelessly lost in attempting to follow the literature on the subject; they do not recognise all the new forms of apparatus which are mentioned and the new names which are used, and thus feel the need of a book dealing with the principles of the subject, a book written during the development itself, and grouping and critically describing the various phases of this development. Such a book cannot pretend to deal fully with all the numerous legal enactments and proposals which have been made with regard to sewage treatment. Bearing all this in mind, I have repeatedly been forced to omit some facts which are of themselves valuable as supporting various opinions, and others which appeared to require further investigation before being finally accepted. Whilst the book has been passing through the press a considerable number of contributions to the subject have been published. I have tried to include these as far as possible in my material, but a full discussion will appear as a kind of appendix to this book in the pages of the Gesundheits-Ingenieur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.