This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...vol. lxix. p. 1240. THE INST. C.e. VoL. CXXX. p and the question of the amount of the percolation of the rainfall into the pebble-bed area was discussed. Another controversial question concerned the distance apart at which wells in the red sandstone might affect the water-levels in each other by pumping. The result of the protracted fight, which occupied nineteen days, was that the Nottingham Corporation were defeated in respect of two of their proposed wells, and the Newark Corporation acquired possession, not of the zone of protection, bounded by an 8-mile circle, which they sought, but of a somewhat more restricted area, together with larger powers than would seem to have been granted in any previous case.1 26 May. 1897.--No. 1. "Carburetted Water-Qas."2 By Corbet Woodall, M....