Minutes of Proceedings, 1896 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings, 1896 "The Sanitary Works of Buenos Ayres: Sewerage, Drainage and Water-Supply." By the Hon. Bichard Clere Parsons, M. A., M. Inst. C. E. The city of Buenos Ayres is situated on the western shore of the Bio de la Plata, at a place where its breadth exceeds 30 miles. The ground here rises to a height of about 60 feet above the water-level, forming a bank near to which the river flows, whilst above and below there exist marshes extending for a considerable distance between the high ground and the river. This spot was selected as the site for the city evidently for this reason, and hence probably the origin of its name, indicating good air, the situation being free from the exhalations from the swamps, which were experienced above and below it. An additional reason for the selection of the site was that the small river El Biachuelo de las Matanzas, which flows into the Bio de la Plata at this point, formed a convenient natural harbour for small vessels, the only one, until recently, the city possessed. The general plan of Buenos Ayres, Fig. 1, Plate 1, shows the several districts into which it was necessary to divide the city when laying out the works to be described. The principal part of the city, A, is bounded on the south and west by a steep bank, or "barranca," which was doubtless at one time washed by the waters of the Bio de la Blata. The flat low-lying district, B, of Boca and Barracas, is submerged for the greater part when sudden floods occur in the Biachuelo, or during exceptionally high tides in the Bio de la Plata. The slope of the barranca and a narrow strip of land between its foot and the river are included in the area C, which is liable in places to be flooded during exceptionally high tides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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