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Scientific American, Vol. 59, No. 20 (1888) (1888)

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special interest as possessing one of the largest wells in the world, which is illus- trated in the cuts. It is excavated in the solid rock to a depth varying in places, but averaging about ed in the progress of the work. use it asit accumulates, for a fertilizer. Its value will 25 feet, and is 100… … ed to the stream ~ ual suction is ex- EAST ORANGE WATER WORKS. erted upon the of sewage as it siphon. It has been found by experience that the comes to the works. It then runs through a square Still one more operation is to be provided for, and siphon never needs recharging, owing to this ingeni-…

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