. Water & sewage works . all there hasnot appeared in the whole structure theslightest crack. The structure is an ex-cellent example of how ingenuity of de-sign and arrangement of members, as wellas proper reinforcement and its distribu-tion, can produce an economical as wellas strong design. It is not necessary, inorder to keep the cost down, to skin orreduce the material. A little ingenuity inthe design and arrangement of membersmore than offsets any advantage of econ-omy that might be obtained by such dan-gerous practices. August, 1913 FROM WORKERS IN THE FIELD 145 The beauty of the structu
. Water & sewage works . all there hasnot appeared in the whole structure theslightest crack. The structure is an ex-cellent example of how ingenuity of de-sign and arrangement of members, as wellas proper reinforcement and its distribu-tion, can produce an economical as wellas strong design. It is not necessary, inorder to keep the cost down, to skin orreduce the material. A little ingenuity inthe design and arrangement of membersmore than offsets any advantage of econ-omy that might be obtained by such dan-gerous practices. August, 1913 FROM WORKERS IN THE FIELD 145 The beauty of the structure is remarka-ble. Graceful curves and outlines arcobtained with no extra cost as the beautyis not in any hisilily ornamental worksor diOieultly molded features, but is inthe simple, graceful general proportion provision being made for the installationof another complete unit of the same sizewhen needed. The unit consists of an Imhoff tank, aset of three contact beds and three sandfilter beds, also sludge drying bed. The. NELSON atreet Viaduct, Atlanta. a Coiwictv titniLtuic of Atlrai-tit r Design. of the members. There is not a thing inthe viaduct that is out of the way or atall expensive, the beauty .the structurepossesses coming from a nice arrange-ment of material rather than extravagantembellishments. The entire work was designed by theEngineering Department of the TrussedConcrete Steel Co., and the designs wereapproved by D. W. Lum of the SouthernRailway. The construction was the workof W. W. Griffin of Atlanta. Sewage Purification at Madison,S. D. The Editor of Municipal Engineering: Sir—The city of Madison, S. D., has apopulation of about 4,000 and is not lo-cated near any river or stream, thereforewhen the sewer system was designed andconstructed a purification plant was indu-ed as a part of the complete scheme. The plant is located upon low groundabout one and three-quarter miles fromthe center of the city. It was designedto meet the needs of 2,000 actual users
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