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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Waterworks"”.
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City waterworks
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Water, waterworks and water journeys in South Florida's Everglades
… of South Florida's Everglades traversed by waterworks structures which protect the region's developed land from flooding. The notion is that while the marsh has been seriously damaged by flood control efforts, both the marsh and the waterworks are important. Both are awesome in extent and …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… of transforming waterscapes. I use the term “waterworks” to describe the experimental novels, stories, and poems that result from empirical engagements with industrialized water bodies. Through case studies of Mary Austin, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorine Niedecker, C. S. Giscombe, and Natalie Diaz, …
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Integration of public access : the adaptive re-use of Alcoa's waterworks
This thesis is about the re-use of Alcoa's Waterworks. The exciting spatial attributes of the buildings which compose the plant, along with the views they offer to Manhattan, inspired the design of a journey through the complex. To create the journey, a system of access was combined with the …
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Waterworks : an artist's inquiry into the development of spaces that promote creative interaction
… sense of exploration, introspection and regard. Waterworks swim through sculptures are intended to encourage the development of an awareness of alternative ways of relating to space. By presenting the participant-viewer with new possibilities for spatial interaction, it is proposed that the …
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The role of street committees in the governance of informal settlements : a case study from Waterworks Township, Grabouw
… examines the role that the street committee in Waterworks, Grabouw, in the Western Cape plays in community governance. It analyses data from a qualitative study which took place between 2007 and 2008. In this thesis I argue that while the street committee has a role to play in the governance of …
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Chemical phosphorus removal from municipal wastewater by the addition of waste alum sludge to the activated sludge system
In many cases, waterworks waste alum sludge is disposed of by discharging it into a stream. In this investigation the disposal of alum sludge to activated sludge systems treating municipal sewage is investigated. The advantage is that it is a better method of alum sludge disposal, and moreover the …
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Implementing US EPA's Operator Certification Program for Small Drinking Water Systems in Virginia
… in Virginia encompassed a diverse group of waterworks and owners/operators. Significant differences were found when survey results were analyzed by the number of people served and system category. Systems serving less than 100 people tended to not have a licensed operator, not have a full …
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The ten years after the Civil War: life and politics in the Continental Divide counties of southwest Virginia
… New River failed, efforts to improve municipal waterworks were largely successful. The inhabitants were people of strong moral convictions, as evidenced by their enthusiasm for the temperance movement and their endorsement of the southern Civil War memorial associations. Reluctantly turning from …
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Optimization of hydraulic networks using the box-complex optimization technique and the linear method of hydraulic analysis
… is often the major investment of a municipal waterworks, it is important that any design satisfy system requirements at a minimum cost. Present design procedures usually employ a trial-and-error process which can be time consuming and lead to non-optimal designs. Although several authors have …
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Evaluating non-point source microplastic pollution and its impact on biota in the Huron River
… the microplastic load of the Huron River at Waterworks Park in Ypsilanti, MI, between September and November 2021 and May and August 2022 over a range of river discharge. There was a strong positive relationship between river discharge and microplastic load, suggesting that runoff is an …
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Urban Water History of Shahjahanabad, Delhi (1639-1857): Situating Mughal Hydrology and Urbanism in the ‘Persianate World’
… The thesis investigates the Mughal system of waterworks through hydrological landscapes shaped by the empire across South Asia, focusing on Shahjahanabad (1639-1857), the last Mughal capital. Using water as a ‘central element’, the thesis decodes patterns of socio-spatial organisation, …
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"Art is a Hardy Plant:" : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the cultivation of a transitional aesthetics
… manual, 1798-1799), and the Philadelphia Waterworks (1798-1801) -- I analyze his magpie borrowings of climate, geology, and natural history. These borrowings were sometimes awkward and were by no means uniformly successful; however, Latrobe's persistence in the face of failure underscores …
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From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
… celebration of its history of Mughal gardens and waterworks, Lahore has been construed in local imaginations as "the city of gardens". In this thesis I argue that the contemporary usage of this popular urban motif is rooted in the nineteenth-century planning of the city and the concurrent …
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Linear-time invariant Positive Systems: Stabilization and the Servomechanism Problem
… justified via numerous experimental results on a waterworks system.
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A microprocessor based telemetry outstation
… at remote sites for the Cape Town City Council's Waterworks Branch of the City Engineer's Department. It is a functional equivalent of existing vendor supplied outstations which are not microprocessor based i.e. they rely purely on hardware. It was necessary to develop these units in-house due …
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A report on a system of water works for Ottawa, Ill
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Assessment and improvement of hydraulic disinfection efficiency of a live small drinking water system in South Africa
… systems. A case study was conducted on a small waterworks in the rural town of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in collaboration with Umgeni Water. Physical tracer tests were conducted on a 10,000L cylindrical tank acting as the contact chamber to assess the hydraulic disinfection …
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Design for a system of water works for the city of Henry, Illinois
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Design for a small pumping plant
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