Excerpt from The Quality of the Surface Waters of California Scope of paper. - This paper gives a brief outline of the processes of scouring wool, bleaching cotton yarn and cloth, dyeing cotton yarn, and manufacturing oleomargarine, glue, and fertilizer. The waste waters' of these processes are considered in detail and means of puri fying them are discussed at length, special prominence being given to the investigations of the authors. These investigations which were begun in pursuance of an agreement for eleven months ...
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Excerpt from The Quality of the Surface Waters of California Scope of paper. - This paper gives a brief outline of the processes of scouring wool, bleaching cotton yarn and cloth, dyeing cotton yarn, and manufacturing oleomargarine, glue, and fertilizer. The waste waters' of these processes are considered in detail and means of puri fying them are discussed at length, special prominence being given to the investigations of the authors. These investigations which were begun in pursuance of an agreement for eleven months cooperative work entered into August 1, 1906, between the United States Geo logical Survey and the Rhode Island state board of health, consisted of the determination of the effects of special industrial wastes on streams, their persistence, their relation to health, their damage to natural water resources, and the best methods of disposing of them, purifying them, or recovering valuable materials contained in them. The effect of the wastes on streams and the resulting damage to water resources has been detailed in another publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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