The Archive · 1926

Pipes Badly Fouled

An exper, engineer was asked if he could give an opinion generally about the Chapei plant.- He said thay with modern methods there was no water that could not *be made perfectly drinkable, and that, og to the Chapel plant, really it quite as good as any water inoer need have, if only it were reared properly. Apart from the actual works, however, there is a further danger. Naturally, wi water of such an order Mowing, through them, the mains must have become foul. ' As yet there has not Leen time to examine them, but it ig a certainty that inside them there is a layer of filth, caked more or less hard. It is possible to ge; this out; it is a long and tedious job, varying in difficulty according to the amount of the deposit and how Yard it maybe. It may even be Lecessary..to relay the. whole system. For the moment, however, with the: type of water now. run: ning, there is no danger.

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