The Surveyor and municipal engineer . : A plan for anew building was deposited and recommended for approvalby me, and was, in fact, approved at the next council meet-ing. At a subsequent meeting J. W. M., who is a memberof my council, contended that the plan should not have beenpasied, and quoted the opinion of Mr. Winship to prove it;lie based his contention on the following two points—Iis.,(1) That every building is required to have a separate drain,and (2) that the drains, if laid as shown on plan, would forma right-angle junction or worse. A and B on accompanyingplan are existing buildings
The Surveyor and municipal engineer . : A plan for anew building was deposited and recommended for approvalby me, and was, in fact, approved at the next council meet-ing. At a subsequent meeting J. W. M., who is a memberof my council, contended that the plan should not have beenpasied, and quoted the opinion of Mr. Winship to prove it;lie based his contention on the following two points—Iis.,(1) That every building is required to have a separate drain,and (2) that the drains, if laid as shown on plan, would forma right-angle junction or worse. A and B on accompanyingplan are existing buildings, while C is ihe propnsed newbuilding, all belonging to the same owner. The existingdrain is shown by a firm black line and the new drains bydotted lines. The existing drain is furnished with a discon-necting chamber near the sewer, and the Inspection chambershown has proper curved channels. My reply to the firstobjeetion is : (o) The buildings are within the samecurtiloge;but even if they were not I should not recommend a separate. connection with the sewer, with its attendant inconveniences,such as breaking the road and tapping a pipe sewer, for thesake of taking the drainage from two gullies; and (h) theregulation quoted is intended to apply to houses, and not tooutbuildings. My reply to the second objection is that branchdrains running at right angles, or acute angles, may be joinedby the introduction of proper bends, so as to avoid what isknown as a right-angle junction. . Mr. Martin has notmade public his case as sent to Mr. Winship, and on writingto the latter as a fellow-surveyor he declines to give hisreasons for his published opinion. We have pleasure in publishing onr correspondentscommunication, and in complimenting him upon the ableand proper manner in which he has interpreted the by-laws in question. With regard to the opinions (1) and (2),expressed by another engineer, Mr. Winship, we mayobserve that neither the Public Health Acts nor the ModelBy-Laws anywhere
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