Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 861 Municipal Construction

Jingjiang County, as the first county in the Wujiang area, is not only the location of regional administrative offices, police headquarters, circuit courts and other institutions, but also the area with the most complete local agricultural development.It is also because of this that this county has always won the most construction funds, materials and personnel among the settlements in the Wujiang area, especially Jingjiang Town, where the county government is located. The county has not only received a huge amount of funding from the Ministry of Finance , At the same time, it has also received various subsidies from the Finance Department of the regional administrative office, and the construction of infrastructure has been rapid and extremely fast.

At the same time, with the gradual development of new technologies, a series of new settlements, including Jingjiang County, are often built with the most advanced technology and design concepts in the East Bank. The requirements are all high standards, and the whole building is built according to the century-old plan.

For example, the city's sewer facilities, which have learned the lessons of Dongfang County and other old cities with gentle slopes, use high-standard sewers built of masonry and cement to discharge urban sewage at a relatively large angle.The branch network and the main network of these sewers are not small in size. It is not so much a sewer pipe as a large river ditch closed with bricks and stones.Large river ditches need regular dredging and maintenance, because a large amount of sediment carried in the sewage will be deposited on the bottom of the river, which will raise the river bed year by year, which will affect the drainage efficiency.The cleaning method is also very simple, that is, send people into the sewer, use shovels and shovels to dig out the foul-smelling silt on the river bed-at this time, the sewage that should have flowed through this sewer will temporarily flow through other pipes Go, which can be controlled by a pre-made gate.

It is worth mentioning that the urban sewer network in Jingjiang Town, which is currently under construction, is combined with the sewage discharge pipes of public toilets, that is, the sub-network—the sewer pipes of each household, which use rough pottery pipes and glaze the outside To prevent leakage, the pottery pipes are fixed with bricks and cement to prevent them from cracking. They are independent from the branch network, and then the small trunk streams (small river ditches made of bricks and stones) are connected to the sewer pipes of public toilets, and finally enter the main trunk In the stream (enclosed brick-built large river ditch), it flows outside the urban area.

The discharged sewage was originally intended to flow directly into the Wujiang River, but Tang Yuan, the commissioner of the District Administrative Office, directly shot down this plan because it was too unhygienic.Tangyuan insists that unless the sewage is discharged directly into the sea, any discharge of sewage into the river—especially when this is the source of drinking water for most people in the county—is irresponsible and must be banned .After researching with the professionals who were sent from above to practice urban sewage treatment, Tangyuan finally planned to discharge the sewage into the wilderness outside the city after treatment.

To discharge these sewage to the wilderness outside, Jingjiang Town has also set up two plans. One is to flood the nutrient-rich sewage (often containing feces and urine) onto the field.Anyway, the wilderness on the east coast is now full of uninhabited and undeveloped areas, and it doesn't seem to have any bad effects to discharge these sewage into the wilderness.Because it is bound to be quite far away from the main residential area, it will not pollute the air or water source of the residential area, so it is definitely an ideal treatment method.

In fact, until the 19th century, Europeans were still flowing sewage through the land in rotation to make it fertile, but soon the residents objected to it due to the foul smell and the dirty and unsanitary environment, which made this This approach is gradually disappearing.However, this is not a big problem on the east coast, because there are large areas of wasteland everywhere in the wild, and it will continue to be barren for many years in the foreseeable future. The fertility of the land, once decided to develop in the future, will be able to get a good harvest.

The second plan is to set up a sewage treatment plant in the wilderness. The process of this plant is actually very simple, generally including sedimentation tanks and chemical cleaning tanks.Some professional and technical personnel from the Ministry of Health found that more than 95% of the sewage is water when doing research in many cities in China (generally it is a subject issued by the state, with a large amount of research funds), and other such as organic matter, sand The content of rocks and so on is not large, because the urban sewer pipes have been baptized by several grilles (filtering coarse objects) and filter screens (filtering fine impurities), and the sewage flowing to the sewage treatment plant after being pressurized by the steam pump station It is already relatively "clean", so it is easier to deal with.

The function of the settling tank is to settle some substances (usually sand) that are neither soluble in water nor suspended in the liquid to the bottom of the pond, while organic matter such as feces, grease, and decayed animal and plant tissues are generally suspended or suspended. Dissolved - If these organic matter are discharged into the river without any treatment, the organic matter will gradually decay, consume oxygen, and release unpleasant gas, eventually causing the death of fish and plants in the water due to lack of oxygen At the same time, a large amount of sludge will be generated in the river and make it silted up, affecting the navigation of ships.

After the sewage that has been settled for the first time in the sedimentation tank is pressurized into the chemical clean pool by the pump station (pump), the staff will put a series of precipitants such as alum, clay, lime, and ferrous sulfate into the pool to make it more clean. More impurities settle to the bottom of the pool.Then, the sewage that has gone through these two processes can be safely discharged to wild wasteland, or discharged into Wujiang River through culverts—at this time, there is not much harm.

The sediment at the bottom of the sedimentation tank and the chemical cleaning tank can also be cleaned regularly. These silts rich in water and organic matter are very fertile and can be used as a good fertilizer after drying.Of course, if no one wants to use these fertilizers, people can also pump this kind of water-rich sludge into special containers, and finally transport them to the sea for disposal-but this seems too wasteful.

It is obvious that although the second option needs to build an additional sewage treatment plant, the whole process is more reasonable and scientific, and the pollution produced is also smaller.Therefore, Wujiang District Commissioner Tang Yuan made the final decision and decided to promote this kind of drainage and sewage treatment facilities in new settlements throughout the region.Some experts from the Ministry of Health have calculated that if such projects are built on the scale of a few years later (with more population and more sewage), it is conservatively estimated that each settlement will require an investment of more than 10 yuan to be initially completed. Such a system.If it is extended to the whole country (the cost of renovating old settlements is much higher than that of building a new one), it is estimated that a huge investment of more than 800 million yuan will be required-this is an astronomy that is enough to scare most of the East Coast Executive Committee number.

To be honest, there are many projects on the east coast of the country today, such as the fourth phase of the Northwest Railway, the construction of the extension of Highway No. 200 and No. [-], the dredging of the Duck Lake channel (so that sea ships can go directly to Ping An Port), the expansion of Qingdao Port Wharf, and the Yaku The dredging of the Yi River, the widening and reconstruction of the upper and middle reaches of the Yi River, the rural water conservancy construction of the entire Wujiang River basin, and the construction of new immigrant settlements cost the most money.These large and small infrastructure projects consume a huge amount of more than [-] million yuan every year, as well as a large number of labor resources. Under such circumstances, the funds that can be invested in municipal infrastructure such as urban sanitation, drainage, and sewage treatment and personnel are extremely limited.

If the Wujiang area wants to implement such a system in every new settlement (the infrastructure cost is the lowest at this time), I am afraid it is beyond its capabilities-not only the money is not enough, but also the professional engineering and technical personnel, building materials and a large amount of resources required for construction. Cheap labor is also hard to find.Therefore, there is no choice but to lower the standard, that is, to build such sewage and sewage treatment facilities in some core settlements first, and then find ways to spread them to the whole region when the finances are abundant.And this kind of thinking is also completely feasible at the national level, that is, to give priority to the transformation of sewer pipes and sewage treatment in important central towns such as Dongfang County, the capital, Pingan County, an important industrial town, Zhenhai County, a shipbuilding base, and Qingdao County, a financial and trade center. Facilities, and then gradually extended to other settlements to share the pressure on funds, building materials and personnel.

We can also see from it that infrastructure construction will still be one of the most popular industries in the East Coast Republic of China now and for many years to come, and this country is eager for cheap construction workers (which can effectively reduce infrastructure costs) The level will also remain at a high level for many years.Whoever can grasp these two points and make a fuss based on them will definitely be able to get a big share of this wave of infrastructure construction and quickly grow into one of the hottest rich men on the east coast.

Jingjiang Town is the location of various yamen in the Wujiang area, and there is a large-scale formal paper mill that is semi-manual and semi-mechanized in the surrounding area outside the city. The core towns have been established, so it has naturally received heavy investment from the regional administration and even the government affairs council.Not only ports and highways will be built, but also urban sewers and sewage treatment plants will be started at the same time.Not enough money is no problem, there is allocation!Not enough materials, no problem, squeeze from other projects, and a large brick and tile kiln will also be launched in the local area!Not enough manpower, it doesn't matter, there are so many Kelandi people on the other side of the Wujiang River, whether it's hiring or kidnapping, in short, find a way to get them to work as coolies first!

All in all, in the East Coast, a New World country that is in the midst of crazy construction, all measures that can reduce infrastructure costs are worthy of people's attention.Especially those Indian workers who hardly pay or only need to pay a small amount of wages can effectively reduce the personnel salary expenditure of each project. With them, maybe the construction cost of the water treatment facilities in Jingjiang Town will be reduced by at least half. ?Think about it, you only need to capture hundreds of thousands of Indians, and then only need to spend 4 yuan to fix a city's sewer pipes and sewage treatment facilities, instead of the original plan of 10 yuan, then you what are you waiting for?

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