The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-01-16 00:00:00

CHEAP PLAN OF LIFTING SEWAGE. NO
PUMPING B.E.QIIIRED.

As almost everybody admits by this tims, a prinap•J,
II not the prinelpal *bleed= to Mr. Ooode's plan for
the &taut. of Weymouth is He emormeas cut. Lf
the drat outlay were all, we !alibi bums more swoon.
oiled to it, believing that ones done, the matter would
be disposed of for a general,. iv.. ned that the
only smut shames would be for interest, and the
capitol to be repaid In testaments, with amall working
expanses. But Yr. Geodes present plan seems to
entail • heavy and untinuous burden for gunplay the
sewage to the height regained, wham by psvitallea it
shall flow on loth' irrigatioa fans. Any plea therefore
witloh will nodule this annul soak will doubting be
hailed with great esti:fustian, and as fares ourreporter's
pereeptiou el engineering matters say be aset4 he at
lust advises 'medullae of a seitente, the &wimp
for which he hu been permitted to lee. A townsman
of Weymouth, who hi also a practical engineer, hes
proposed a Duel appliostion of tits power of deem, of
whieh he has had personal expedite's, whereby as a
very 'clued wet, and doing sway with szpouive
machinery, the sewage may be lif led to a height
aufesient to utilise it for irrtirstlon, or to flow Into the
West Bay. By this plan our guises, dais that the
off entice matter ooald be lifted even as high as Wylie,
If required, at an expenditure of three lona of ooke per
day at the utmost, No skilled labour would be required,
at lout no MOTO than would be wanted to look lASI' an
ordinary steam boiler, end our eogiaaer states that the
apparatus men be bled fee se many haadrele as Mr.
Coode proposes to spend thousands as pantplag
maohlury. Having onamined the plan, another salvias
suggested itself to our eelperlawas mind that the
sae of land nignired for the works would be very small,
compared with Mail needed for Mr. Coode's pampa
We Amid very am& Mbn la pines fall deldis before
readers; bat sub deMlb men at maim be withheld.
But our reporter dales Mat Me eisa. power la eased
to Is Wiest sliest by bid nppiled at am to the object
to be lifted, as sewage, an wallah it bets ea immediately
as OD the *toe of asteenteeslme, end thereby all waste
by the iaterualtion of eamireas emehlwary is leaved.
Of course the lom el power by hielisa is very great In
ordinary meobleary, end the entire saving of this
Motion is the awes of the power befog so dimply and
efficiently 'Wired by the plan mentioned. We are
promised fair &Asia next weak; but in the mean-
time we may mention that Me prineipl• itself is not
new, for in the rune we Moses are shot from the
crater of a voloaso or an leelead prier, while Perkins's
steam gun expels bullets In proUsely the same way,
and so the deb(' s of aa eagle' room are shot Isom a
ship'. side. A trial mail he made at the gee-wart.
on • small male Mr shoat £5, and ear engineer invites
*wain/aloe by persons asseslowned to the application
of steam. There would be es 'luau of lose by break.
log down, as there is no machinery, no movies parts
of bbs apparstaA simply an ordinary boiler, sad pipes
fitted to • psealiar way,