CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 493

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for bealthy recreation

purposes,

and for

the reception of trees and plants, and security the surface drainage which must be it arranged as to inatie

the rain to run

off as fast as it falis. The latter will be effected by the slope

which it is intended to

give

to the

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new ground from the centre to the cises, while in respect of comûerground drainaga, asystem of agricnitural subsoil pipe with perforater sites will be lail come feet vaûw the evil to brad all percolation into the dyke at the ises, which is specially designed to receive and carry off this gromi-water On the month was the subsoil pipes with drain direct into the lake.

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6.

It the mothern and of Bu

valley around the vicinity of the

proposes ornamental lake, the drainage arrangements will be reversis, ground-water as well as surface water beving divertes cits the lake, or from

from the sixes to the center, mistrar of from the centre to the ise. The object of the lake is not only to create picturesque lantscape effect,

leck, and to assist in subsoil dessinage but to imate the Enginan to obtain from its excavation the necessary material

for the filling in of the upper osäkent.

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surface of

pipe laid miser the

the

ground will connect the lake with the Formington

Canal

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