The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 296
the plan of Derby, this course will be very clear, and the cause of thisexpenditure will be in the recollection of your readers to have arisenfrom a sudden inundation of the town about three years ago, when themarket-place was flooded in a sudden manner, supposed to have arisenfrom a water spout… … The situation of the town is very low and is intrrsected with rivers,brooks, and canals, and the engineers have had recourse to the passingof Becket Well Brook, underneath the sewer, by a cast iron syphon.The water in the brook being retained to a certain level, the surplusrunning over a waste weir…
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