A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 271
e. In Greater New York, for instance,sizes of house sewers are determined upon theliasis of a rainfall at the rate of 6 inches perlimir, and of a house sewer numing nearly full,with a velocity of at least 4 feet per second. Table I. gives the areas of lots drained byditterent sizes of pipes : —… … O ■<g « CO o 441 442 HOUSE DRAINAGE It is nut always necessary tu iirovide forextreme amounts of rainfall. Generally smallhouses are readily drained by 4-ineh sewers, 5-inch sewers answer for a large city house, and6-inch sewers aie reiiuire<l only for large liuild-ings. For buildings…
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