Municipal Council report for the year 1914 and budget for 1915, dealing with works and general matters, 8 number of interesting ven of the various local In his report on Works Matters, Mr, Obas. H. Godfrey, Engineer and Bareror, refers to the ex: ce] high floods which occurred on several occasions during the year. On such occasions, he says, water levels have been carefully taken and show conclusively that flooding could not be attributed to any inadequacy in the size of the sewers, the level of the water in the streets being appreciable lower than that in the Huangpu River.
Whilst not advancing the theory that the sewers are at all too large for the amount of water which they are called upon to carry away under ordinary conditions, he plage out that large sewers of of ths streets through offering a Id tend to increase flooding
freer flow to the rising tidal water, and thereby enabling it to find its own natural level through drains and gulleys to the low lying
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