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1959 Engineering Book about Water Systems

Entitled, "Water Supply Engineering" by Babbitt & Doland
Hardcover, 608 pages.

Asbestos Information:

Describes how Asbestos was used for pipe joints, in water works, asbestos-cement pipe, and asbestos coatings!

What this book says:

"Materials and Specifications. Materials most commonly used for distribution pipes include iron, steel, cement, and asbestos cement."

"Materials used for joints in water pipes include lead, sulphur-and-sand mixtures, poured bituminous compounds, cement, rubber, and various proprietary substances with asbestos, hemp, jute, and other substances used as packing in poured joints."

"Asbestos-cement Pipe is composed of asbestos fiber and portland cement..."
This section on Asbestos Cement Pipe is over a page long and mentions the brand names Century, Eternite, Roxite, and Transite.

What this book is based on:
Specifications given in this book are based on the following standards:
American Water Works Association, the American Society for Testing Materials, the American Standards Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Division of Simplified Practice, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Procurement Division, U.S. Treasury Department (Federal Specifications).

Specifically, Federal Specifications and AWWA Specifications are referenced in the sections that mention asbestos.

Pictures/drawings in this book are credited to the following companies: Johns-Manville Company; Crane Company; Continental Pipe Manufacturing Co; and others.


CONTENTS include: Hydraulics, Demand for Water, Ground Water, Location Construction and Maintenance of Wells, Meteorology and Hydrology, Dams, Intakes, Aqueducts, Stresses in Pipe, Impounding Reservoirs, Pumping Stations, Electrical Equipment, Pumping Engines, Centrifugal Rotary and Other Pumps, Water Pumps, Materials and the Design of Pipes, Valves, Gates, Hydrants, and Meters, Metallic Corrosion, Storage and Distribution Systems, Construction and Maintenance of Distribution Systems, Relation of the Quality of Water to Health and to Industry, Measures of the Quality of Water Supplies, Living Organisms in Water, Plain Sedimentation, Sedimentation with Coagulation, Slow Sand and Rapid Sand Filtration, Water Softening, Disinfection, Misc. Methods of Water Purification

CONDITION: Acceptable.  Wear to spine and covers.  No dustjacket.  Old price sticker to inside back cover. Mostly erased owner name to front endpaper. Underlining and marks to some pages.
1959 Engineering Book
about Water Systems
$175