CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 98

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Orain outlet mouths and Sewer outlet mouths with w

tide valves.

sunt arran

opposite

...

pre-

occur almost

These under

second shuts leading

arrangements

every

down to the Praiga, but it is intended

to reduce the number

less

along

the

Praya Central to love them a quarter,

by the construction.

ou

the sites

shewn in the Cross Sections in

Drawings hos 25 and.

tercepting

25 A 255 A of in-

sewers which will gather

the contents

into one.

or

five

of every four outlet to discharge into at how Water line (S. W. I h

the sea

Snowdorn.)

Sew

In addition to these

there are

arched.

masonry

outlets at a somewhat higher levd

which do not contain sewer a

qe

My

any

noxious matter and which

specially designed to carry off the

storm waters

of

Peaks during

during the

the ravines of

the paing

Victoria

season. Theses

3 fut

nullahs are & feet wide by

high of ashlar and have paved floors which after cvery preshet

A

long way

are

in with

of

left covered for about to to 15 inches of well washed pure sharp grilled quartz sands

course texture admirably suited for building purposes on

at

of

it

great cleanliness and which is accordingly much sought after by local builders for mortaes and ce- That in the sand heaps...

ments.

left

01.

the foreshore at the nullah mouths at low lider is

not quite

possiblyy

so clean, but if tak or

DE

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