This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in the summer of 1892, some $10,000,000 having been expended upon it. Bradford, one of England's most progressive municipalities, --a town of some 225,000 inhabitants, --has also gone far afield for a safe and permanent supply of water. It had protected its existing nearer sources by the purchase of large areas of land ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in the summer of 1892, some $10,000,000 having been expended upon it. Bradford, one of England's most progressive municipalities, --a town of some 225,000 inhabitants, --has also gone far afield for a safe and permanent supply of water. It had protected its existing nearer sources by the purchase of large areas of land to guard against possible contamination; but now it has secured as a heritage for future generations (by terms of the Bradford Water Act of 1890) "the almost uninhabited and uncultivated moorlands at the sources of the river Nidd on the slopes of Great Whernside, distant 40 miles from the town," whence an unfailing supply of pure water will be brought by aqueducts. Cardiff, the Severn seaport and South Wales metropolis, purchased the works of a privatewater-company in 1879 at a cost of $1,500,000, and since then has spent $3,000,000 more upon a scheme which brings the purest of water from the Taff Fawr valley, distant 32 miles in the hills. Bolton, an excellent type of the best manufacturing towns, with a population approaching 125,000, brings its admirable water-supply from the Entwisle moors, which fortunately are only a few miles distant, although the works have cost about $4,000,000. Sheffield has since 1887 purchased the waterworks from a private company at a cost of $7,500,000, and is improving them. The sources are some miles distant and are of a fortunate character. Leeds, the great Yorkshire manufacturing town, has an elaborate system of storage and filtering reservoirs and pumpingworks through which it distributes the water of the river Washburn; and Hull, Yorkshire's seaport, has a good public supply. Nottingham and Leicester, also representative manufacturing towns of approximately 200,000 inhabitants each, municipalized b...
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