Schemes for the interception, conveyance, and utilisation of the sewage & drainage of Glasgow / by James Brown.

  • Brown, James.
Date:
1871
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    dimensions than those required for Messrs. Bateman & Bazalgette's scheme, are secured, are much more manageable, and less likely to get out of order. Such conduits it was proposed should be laid along the margin of the river, on the north and south sides respectively, commenc- ing as far up as Springfield and opposite, and terminating along the enclosed banks. In treating the city sewage and drainage, the proposal in Messrs. Bateman & Bazalgette's report, due originally to our able and indefatig- able city ai'chitect, should be so far carried out. The middle and lower levels could with advantage be thrown into one, and the higher level retained, but connected with the main intercepting conduit at or below Whiteinch. By such an arrangement a considerable impetus would be given to the flow of the sewage at and below that point. The middle and lower levels being thrown into one would necessarily have their otvtfalls along the mai-gin of the river, and discharge into the main con- duit as it passed the city. Reference has been made to the entrance of atmospheric air into sewers at their outfalls as performing invaluable sanitary functions; but connected as just described, aerial currents are effectually cut off. Provision is therefore necessary for a copious admission of atmospheric air into the sewers. This provision is supplied by constructing an air-opening at each outfall, fitted with a cast-iron ventilator; and a former proposal for carrying off the diluted sewer gases carried out, viz., the formation of small openings in the upper segments of at least the main sewers, with iron pipes hermetically fastened into them, and all led into a main, to be carried to some upland locality, and passing into a stalk of such dimen- sions and height as may be considered desirable. Such arrangements would certainly provide against all possible contingencies. The stalk could be as ornate as possible—made a thing of beauty on the landscape, as of joy to all apprehensive minds. Following out the respective courses of the main intercepting conduits, that on the north side would receive the drainage and sewage of Tollcross, Westmuir, Parkhead, and Camlachie—places for which no provision has been made in any scheme yet proposed, and which stand in much need of being provided for. As it approached tbe Kelvin it would require to be diverted northwards, so as cross that tributary a little above Messrs. Tod & M'Gregor's works, where it would form another weir- on that useful stream. Thence along Dumbarton Road, crossing the Forth and Clyde Canal under its bed, intercepting in its course the sewage and drainage of Maryhill, along with that of the high level system of the city. At Dumbarton it would properly traverse the town meadows ; thence, by a deflection, across the channel of the Leven, so as not to affect any navagable uses of that stream. At this point the drainage and sewage of Dumbarton, Benton, Alexandria, Bonhill, and Jamestown could be provided for. From the Leven it would necessarily turn south- wards to the adjacent enclosed bank. On the south side the main conduit would pursue a direct course, taking in the sewage, <fec, of Butherglen and Pollokshaws, as well as that of the city south of the Clyde, till it reached Kingston Dock, where it would require to be diverted southwards up West Street; thence along the Paisley and Renfrew Roads, receiving the sewage of Govan, Pollok-