Small water supplies : being a practical treatise on the methods of collecting, storing and conveying water for domestic use in large country mansions, estates and small villages and farms, for the use of engineers, estate agents, and owners of country property / by F. Noel Taylor.

  • Taylor, F. Noel.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Small water supplies : being a practical treatise on the methods of collecting, storing and conveying water for domestic use in large country mansions, estates and small villages and farms, for the use of engineers, estate agents, and owners of country property / by F. Noel Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quality of water in small quantities. Medicinal springs exist in new red sandstone, especially brine springs. Red sandstone is almost equally permeable in every direction, which is evinced by quarry faces of this stone being quite dry, in the same Way as chalk and sand, except in places where clay forms partings in it, and in this case well sinking would not be attended by much success. Liverpool, in its old waterworks, furnishes a good example of wells sunk in red sandstone. We now come to consider what are termed the Pala'ozoic Series, which, however, are not as important from a water supply point of view as those previously mentioned. Palaeozoic rocks con- sist of shale, grit, sandstone, with layers of coal and ironstone and millstone grit, and carboniferous limestone. Wells sunk near coal measures will yield a small quantity of water impregnated with iron and not of good quality. Millstone grit usually rests on impervious limestone shale. It is usually found in wild localities in very rugged form and in- tersected with ravines in which flow mountain tor- rents supplied with water finding its way through its pores. Practically the same remarks apply to carboniferous limestone. Springs will occur at faults filled with clay. In fact carboniferous limestone is a study in itself, so interesting are the rivers therein which disappear and reappear frequently along their course. The Peak of Derbyshire affords many in- stances, as also does Coole Park, Co. Galwa}^, of which the writer has personal experience. In this chapter, then, brief notice has been taken of the various sources of supply which will be at the disposal of the engineer. In conclusion, it will be