Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
i Hydrogen Sulphide (HS) Attack
ii Property Services
iii Sewerage Reticulation
XII Water Engineering
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
XVIII Oil Industry
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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Sewerage is water-borne human, domestic and industrial waste, which cannot be prevented from arising in some form. It is always objectionable. Sewerage works have to be financed by a politically unpopular tax, rate or levy. The acceptance of this necessity was probably the most difficult step in the establishment of sewerage in the cities of Australia. Inquiries into the sanitary conditions of Sydney and Melbourne may be seen -in relation to those two cities -as defining the initial introduction of technology to the process of sewerage disposal.
Australian sewerage authorities, coming late in the field, had the advantage of being able to select the most appropriate technology from those available overseas. A regular feature of the years of development of the sewerage systems was the visits of leading Australian engineers to Europe and North America. The availability of imported technology has, however, not prevented Australian engineers from adapting and improving it.
People in Bright Sparcs - Robertson, A. G.
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