Report of the Cochituate Water Board, to the City Council of Boston, for the Year 1852 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Cochituate Water Board
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334174605
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Excerpt from Report of the Cochituate Water Board, to the City Council of Boston, for the Year 1852 It is proposed in doing this, to make use of Roman cement for stopping the fissures, and lining the interior as far as the inverted arch, instead of the American hydraulic cement which has been used, and so far as the work has advanced, the attempt has been quite successful. The operation must, however, be a slow one, as it will be impossible to shut off the water from the Aqueduct except for a few days at a time, and even then the quantity in Brookline Reservoir will be so much diminished that the loss of head will be, as it is now, seriously felt in many parts of the high service of the City. We regret that the necessity of using the foreign hydraulic cement, instead of the American which has been hitherto ineffectually tried, will some what increase the cost of the work. 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.