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The first closed sewer constructed in Paris was designed by Hugues Aubird in 1370 on Rue Montmartre (Montmartre Street), and was 300 meters long. The original purpose of designing and constructing a closed sewer in Paris was less-so for waste management as much as it was to hold back the stench coming from the odorous waste water. [64]
The "old sea bank", built in the medieval era to protect part of The Fens from flooding A medieval ditch and bank, constructed for flood defence in West Sussex. Commissions of sewers, originally known as commissions de wallis et fossatis (Law Latin: "commissions of walls and ditches [or dikes]") [1] were English public bodies, established by royal decree, that investigated matters of land ...
He called the future of south Florida the "Empire of the Everglades" and compared its potential to that of Holland and Egypt: "It would indeed be a commentary on the intelligence and energy of the State of Florida to confess that so simple an engineering feat as the drainage of a body of land above the sea was above their power", he wrote to ...
From 1842 to 1852 sections of the sewer were drained. Pietro Narducci, an Italian engineer was hired by the city of Rome to survey and restore the parts of the sewer by the Forum and the Torre dei Conti in 1862. In 1890 Otto Ludwig Richter, a German archaeologist created a map of the sewers. [25] These efforts renewed public interest in ...
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first
Archaeologists leading the work said that after an earthquake devastated the sprawling city in about A.D. 388, the statue had been carefully placed in the sewers and covered with soil, explaining ...
A canal that feeds into the Lake Worth Lagoon was awash in reeking sewage Tuesday, Feb. 20 after a break in a Village of Palm Springs sewer main near Congress Avenue and Greenbrier Drive.
Water closets could now empty into the cities sewer which in turn emptied into the Thames. [8] This was a disaster for the river. In 1816 salmon could be caught in the Thames, four years later none could be caught. The water closet overloaded the medieval cesspool system which was still in use. The use of water to dispose of sewage in the water ...