. Water & sewage works . , and also provides for the ap-pointment of a board of experts to de-termine what the rates for service shall bein case either party thinks they shouldbe changed and it is not possible to agreeupon such rates; and provides that arate when fixed shall stand for five yearsbefore it can again be questioned. Specifications for Wood Paving forBridge Will you please send me information forwriting specifications for paving roadway ofiron bridge with creosoted wood block?Bridge is S5 feet long. 14-toot roadway. City Engineer, , Pa. In vol. xlii of Municipal Engineering,pp.
. Water & sewage works . , and also provides for the ap-pointment of a board of experts to de-termine what the rates for service shall bein case either party thinks they shouldbe changed and it is not possible to agreeupon such rates; and provides that arate when fixed shall stand for five yearsbefore it can again be questioned. Specifications for Wood Paving forBridge Will you please send me information forwriting specifications for paving roadway ofiron bridge with creosoted wood block?Bridge is S5 feet long. 14-toot roadway. City Engineer, , Pa. In vol. xlii of Municipal Engineering,pp. 389 and 472. will be found two articleson Floor for Highway Bridge, whichgive data on which to base vol. xli. p. 294, in an article on Ex-pansion and Contraction in Wood BlockPavements, is a rather detailed speci-fication for laying a bridge floor. Speci-fications for wood block treatment andfor laying pavements are discussed inmany other articles, some of which maybe of use in this case. Aitpust. 19J3. WORKERS INTHE FIELD _a Nelson Street Viaduct, Atlanta, Ga. The old viaduct which carried Nelsonstreet, Atlanta, Ga., over the yards ofthe Southern Railway has just been re-placed by a modern reinforced concretearch roadway which has proved to be amost happy combination of strength, util-ity, and beauty. The viaduct starts from a concreteabutment at the property line of Madi-son avenue and rises gradually for adistance of approximately 355 feet atthe rate of 2 feet in 100 to a point overthe middle of the main line tracks, fromwhich it drops for 125 feet at the samerate to an abutment at the Elliott streetend. The total length from abutment toabutment is 479 feet 4% inches. The structure is made up of ten archesvarying in span from 20 to 75 feet. Theentire width is 50 feet. Of this width32 feet is used as a roadway on each sideof which is a sidewalk 9 feet wide. Theclear headroom under the arches over themain tracks is 21 feet and over the tracksof the freight y
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