Identifier: surveyormunicipa45lond (find matches)
Title: The Surveyor and municipal engineer
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering Engineering Great Britain
Publisher: London, Temple Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the increase of his pipractice, he ha.- resigned the position- of sanitarysurveyor and sanitary inspector, but continuti e office of highway surveyoi 260 THE SUKVEYOK AND MUNICIPAL January 90, 1914. ROAD WORK IN T0NBRID6E RURAL DISTRICT. SURVEYORS REPORT. i m ing in Hi., ihi i disti - ■ ■ i I ■ i, i.. . i (Cent, Iui ii the s ;l i ended March 31 ri i ui.I sui veyor, Mr. Franl Han195, iBl upei ■■- < I m avei age of lid ; uper \ ardPhi i about CI i he i pend it the pre- vious year, and ;d i (iei upei yard Utho I 11 ge outlay in llarri i i i i ed liat tJie penditure i justified rom a mail \ iew alone. Wit) I i In p n1 i i lie road Id I Iroj ed bj i In motoi 11 aftii 1 lie immediate result i a\ mv in ma m i il ELGINS FERROCONCRETE RESERVOIR. . hichwill uppl -i,i ,.i i i v. i.Ii wat oi i i • in I ■ ;t i- 90 fl long loft, wide, and 10ft. high lo the surface I int the 1 I slabs, I lateral beams. Phe engineei I CD id the r was Mr. Jan Lawn Cry igellachie. Phe design m ,,i tin-
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N i.u Hi sera mi:. Elgin cavenging and clearing, and the prevention oi scour-ing of the roads after hteavj »torms, while tlie systemmust necessarilj result in less materia) for repaiibeing required owing to the prolonged life oi the road urface. During the year about -, miles of highways weresurfaced with tarred Kent ragstone. This proved verysatisfactory on the very heavie I trafficked roads. Mr.Iliini- states that he used a carpet of tarred graniteui i-m grade, supplied by the Tarred Granites Company, this being laid on a 3-in. sub-crust oi tarredragstone. The road is giving splendid result: nude)mot©) -bus traffic, and he propo >e to exti ad the - i i i the int are. At r. Harris has also laid the tar-carpeting I in. thick on old tarred rag urfaceThe results of this have been good, but he finds that,i ,\ ui to i lie old in tace being impel viou . care mustbe taken to carrj out the carpeting in dry weather,otherwise the water has difficult) in drying out. Inall cases he recommen

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