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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23
Illustrations
Illustrations.
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Specimen of Permanent Way as laid down between Ferrymead and Christchurch Stations:—
Exhibited by Messrs G. Holmes and Co. |
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| (b.) | Plan and Section of the Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway. | |||||||||||||||
| (c.) | Set of Drawings, shewing the manner of carrying on the tunnel works. | |||||||||||||||
| (d.) | Plans of Terminal Stations as executed, with a design for the Lyttelton Terminus, shewing the proposed Harbor Works. | |||||||||||||||
| (e.) | Section of the Lyttelton Tunnel, on an enlarged scale, shewing the present state of the works. |
The above exhibited by E. Dobson, C.E., Engineer of the Lyttelton and Christchurch Railwar.
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Plan of Christchurch and its neighborhood, with a Report made to the Municipal Council of Christchurch on the Drainage of the City.—Exhibited by E, Dobson. C.E.
No provision has yet been made for the drainage of the town of Christ church, beyond forming side gutters in the leading streets. The use of cesspools is disallowed by the City Council, and the closets are furnished with metal soil-pans, which are emptied periodically.
The water supply is abundant, and is derived chiefly from artesian wells, sunk to a depth of about 60 feet below high-water mark, the water rising to a tolerably uniform height of about 24 feet above high water.
The object aimed at in the plan here exhibited has been to provide an improved outlet for the surface drainage of the south-east portion of the town, which is low and swampy; and to carry the house drainage and sewerage of the city into the Avon and Heathcote Rivers, by a system of pipe sewers, discharging their contents below the town, and flushed from the artesian wells through the water-closets, the rainfall being carried off by the open street gutters, without entering the pipe drains.