Management of Combined Sewer Overflows
Contributors: Richard Field (Editor); Daniel Sullivan (Editor); Anthony N. Tafuri (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: November 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781566706360
Subjects: Sewage treatment & disposal; Urban runoff; Purification; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Sewage; Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling; Water Supply; Nature / Water Supply; Combined sewer overflows; Environmental Science
First sentence: The contemporary "combined sewer" had its origins in the mid 19th century, but, if one of the marks of an advanced civilization is the physical infrastructure of its cities, numerous ancient civilizations were notably ahead of their time in their ability to design and build systems to control wet-weather and sanitary-wastewater flows.