The bottling house is also a single story wood frame structure, built in 1929 after the previous building on the site was destroyed by fire. It is architecturally unremarkable, with similar proportions to the spring house. Its interior is largely unfinished, with exposed ceiling rafters and wall joists. The southern part of the building is taken up by a tank, lined in granite, with an overflow catchbasin and troughs at which the filling operation took place.
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In 1940, Mackintosh moved to Bowness, and bought 24 acres of land west of the Shouldice Bridge in the area then known as Critchley. He relocated his business, Western Nurseries, from Brooks to Bowness but had difficulty at first because of the lack of water, electricity or gas. He supported the establishment of Bowness as a town and was elected mayor of the first Bowness Town Council in 1952, serving until 1958. As mayor, Mackintosh lobbied the provincial government for a catchbasin to prevent flooding (there was a bad flood in Bowness on New Year's Eve 1951), and for a school, which was named Bowcroft School.
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Storm drain in Küstrin (now Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland) Some of the heavier sediment and small objects may settle in a catch basin, or sump, which lies immediately below the outlet, where water from the top of the catch basin reservoir overflows into the sewer proper. The catchbasin serves much the same function as the "trap" in household wastewater plumbing in trapping objects. In the United States, unlike the plumbing trap, the catch basin does not necessarily prevent sewer gases such as hydrogen sulfide and methane from escaping. However, in the United Kingdom, where they are called gully pots,Field, Richard and Daniel Sullivan.
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Another method of mosquito control is to spread a thin layer of oil on the surface of stagnant water, interfering with the breathing tubes of mosquito larvae. The performance of catch basins at removing sediment and other pollutants depends on the design of the catchbasin (for example, the size of the sump), and on routine maintenance to retain the storage available in the sump to capture sediment. Municipalities typically have large vacuum trucks that perform this task. Catch basins act as the first-line pretreatment for other treatment practices, such as retention basins, by capturing large sediments and street litter from urban runoff before it enters the storm drainage pipes.
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Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Accessed July 16, 2009 The Fountain of Waterfalls, installed in 1962 in front of the Seattle Municipal BuildingThe Fountain of Waterfalls was made of cast stone, steel, glass, aluminum and bronze. It was 25 feet tall, 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep, and was set in the center of a 20 x 30 foot catchbasin. Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Accessed July 16, 1009 and Activity of Thought, installed in 1965 at the Magnolia Branch of The Seattle Public Library.Activity of Thought was made of treated sheets and rods of steel and measures approximately 2 feet high by 3 feet wide by 6 inches deep.
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Early opposition to the project, upon its suggestion in 2012, mostly focused on the displacement of fisherfolk from the shores of Laguna de Bay, and on the fact that large corporations would benefit so much from the reclamation, with activist fisherfolk groups like PAMALAKAYA (the National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organization in the Philippines) protesting the construction of "high-rise condominium buildings, big-budget housing units, world-class hotels and ecotourism centers in areas which will be vacated by the lake-shore families.". PAMALAKAYA also expressed skepticism regarding the intent of the project, saying they had doubts such a project would really solve flooding in Metro Manila and low-lying areas around the lake, or provide a major water catchbasin catering to the business needs of water and electric utilities.
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December, 2003 accessed Feb 17,2009 The Mattole Estuary is where the waters of the land meet and mix with the tidewaters of the Pacific Ocean, and acts as a settling basin for both river sediment and sand from ocean waves, and will eventually fill to become a meadow.. The Bureau of Land Management designated the Mattole Estuary as an "Area of Critical Environmental Concern" in 1981. This area, now at more than , has significant cultural, historic, wildlife and habitat resources.EIS-ch3,pt5,p2 The watershed, or catchbasin of the river has been seriously impacted from past road building, and restoration efforts include abandonment of some roadways as well as reshaping and upgrading of others.EIS-ch3,pt5,p4 Other fish species in the Mattole River include the Pacific lamprey, threespine sickleback, and the starry flounder.
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