June 27.
AT the present time when many people are being inconvenienced floods on public roads it is natural to wonder what steps the Shanghai Municipal Council has been taking to prevent these occurrences or, at least, to keep them under some sort of control, An interesting review of the work done by the S.M.C. Public Works Department during the past few years answers many questions of the layman regarding what has been done in the matter of flood control.
Really effective control of the large natural forees, which cause floods is big: engineering undertaking any-Where as the work done in. Ameriex and elsewhere sufficiently shows, and a large. flat low-level town' like Shanghai the virtual removal of the risk of serious floods would require large new drains in almost all' the roads constructed to discharge. int. special pump stations capable of removing the water as fast as it coliccs Whatever the height of the tide may be. Drain laying on such a scale Would (ake about 10 years to com plete and seriously interrupt trame for most of the time, while the cost of the whole scheme' would be pro hhibltive even in normal times. "Some thing less ambitious but more practical has had to be found.
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