The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 186
d and carried into thelock-cliamber. Tlie bottom of each reservoir should he at least one footbelow the mouth of the culvert, or lower, so tliat at least one foot ofwater remains in each reservoir, after the reserved water is discharged.The main object in constructing the culverts is, therefore, to… … The culverts in the lock-wall embankment are represented in thedrawing to be of wood. The culverts in the wall itself must be con-structed either in the form of rectangular syphons, or straight linearinclined, so that the mouth of the culvert of the lower reservoir opensinto the lock-chamber, below…
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