The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's HandbookBoulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
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The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook
Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
Municipal engineering; Sanitary engineering
(4.) Where there is a separate or partially separate system of sewerage,
a double sewer in the street is avoided.
The only objection to this method being that of the chance of the sewer
becoming choked or broken when entry has to be made into private
property to repair it, but this ought never to happen after once the
sewer has been properly constructed. Of course, where houses are closely
packed together it would not be possible to carry the sewer at the back,
but where it can be done I agree thoroughly with Mr. Rawlinson, C.B.,
C.E., &c., who, speaking of this method, says, “I know nothing but good
of it.”
Where the sewer is proposed to be taken through any private lands it is
necessary to act in accordance with the following clause of the Public
Health Act 1875, and serve the necessary notices, a specimen form of
which also follows:
“Any local authority may carry any sewer through, across, or under any
turnpike road, or any street or place laid out as or intended for a
street, or under any cellar or vault which may be under the pavement or
carriageway of any street, and, after giving reasonable notice in
writing to the owner or occupier (if on the report of the surveyor it
appears necessary), into, through, or under any lands[182] whatsoever
within their district. They may also (subject to the provisions of this
Act relating to sewage works without the district of the local
authority) exercise all or any of the powers given by this section
without their district for the purposes of outfall or distribution of
sewage” (38 & 39 Vic. c. 55, s. 16).
The form of notice necessary to be served before entry upon any lands
for the purpose of carrying out any sewerage works may be on the
following pattern:--
“NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
“1. That the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of ,
in execution of the powers and authorities given to and vested in them
by virtue of the Public Health Act 1875, upon the report of their
surveyor, whereby it appears to the said authority to be necessary to
enter into, through, or under the lands and premises particularly
described in the schedule hereunder written, for the several purposes
hereinafter mentioned, the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses will
immediately after the day of enter into and upon the
premises described in the said schedule hereto, and on the plan
hereinafter mentioned numbered , for the purpose of in,
through, or under the said lands and premises , and to construct
all other necessary works for all or any of the purposes aforesaid.
“2. The course of the said sewer is indicated by a line drawn on the
said plan from the point to .
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