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Treatment of overflows from combined sewers

Abstract

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Introduction: Automation and the danger of over productivity have created unprecedented amounts of leisure time in the United States. We are now in the process of finding that major potential recreational areas have been seriously polluted by the by-products of the same automation and productivity which have created our leisure time. Increasing urbanization has been accompanied by progressively more stringent demands on water quality and quantity while steadily impairing the same parameters . One of the major sources of water quality impairment due to concentrated urban growth is combined sewer overflow...

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Civil Engineering
Department dc:contributor.department
Civil Engineering
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1968

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Colston, Newton V.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • King, Paul H.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Wiggert, James M.
  • Myers, Raymond H.
  • Morris, Henry M.
  • Randall, Clifford W.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
etd-07082010-020102
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/38699

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Colston, Newton V.. Treatment of overflows from combined sewers. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1968. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38699