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Disasters This site contains files in PDF format. |
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Disasters This site contains files in PDF format. |
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For Reference Clean Water for the World, Insituform brochure about failing and neglected water and wastewater infrastructure. (PDF) Source: Jayne Bringer, Insituform Technologies. |
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For Reference See our Photos/Graphics section for more information on sinkholes and disasters |
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"Explosion of a Rolling-Mill Boiler," The Manufacturer and Builder, Volume 13, Issue 4 (April 1881), p. 83-84. Courtesy of The Making of America Digital Collection, Cornell University Library. Frames version with JavaScript. PDF version (printer-friendly). |
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N. S. Sprague and Chas. M. Reppert; "The Pittsburgh Sewer Explosion;" Engineering News; Vol. 71, No. 1 (January 1, 1914); pp. 22-28. |
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"Discharge of Inflammable Wastes Into Sewers - Problem of Prevention - The Pittsburgh Sewer Explosion Investigation," Engineering and Contracting, Vol XLII, No. 21 (November 18, 1914), pp. 476-478. PDF (scanned by Google Books) |
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Robert H. McDormick; "The Eighteenth St. Sewer Explosion at Detroit;" Engineering News; February 12, 1914; p. 373. |
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N. S. Sprague, "Inflammable Wastes in Sewers," Municipal Engineering, November 1914, pp. 336-343. Includes information about the Pittsburgh sewer explosion (above). PDF (scanned by Google Books) |
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Isaac Shone, The Evolution of Greater Britains's Antiseptic House & Town Sewage-Drainage Systems of the Twentieth Century (London: E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd), 1914. This book is largely an advertisement for the author's Shone system, which he counterposes to various hazardous sewer designs. For an example, see p. 294. PDF (scanned by Google Books) |
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Laura Fairbanks (Pima County Wastewater Management Dept.), "Sewer Collapse Causes Sinkholes in Tucson, Arizona, on September 7, 2002." Html version |
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Thomas Rooney, Insituform, "The Looming Sinkhole Crisis," Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2007. If article is offline, check here. |
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