Here two reservoirs of a combined capacity of 668 million gallons have been constructed, and a conduit some 36 m.
The water is brought to the town in a conduit consisting of 233 m.
Its name is derived from the "Teat" or conduit which conveyed water from Horningsham, about r m.
It may be pointed out here that these expressions are defined by the act, the effect of the definitions being shortly that a drain is a conduit for the drainage of one building or of several within the same curtilage, while a sewer comprises every kind of drain except that which is covered by the definition of a drain as above stated.
The design of any piece of catchwork will vary with local conditions, but generally it may be stated that it consists in putting each conduit save the first to the double use of a feeder or distributor and of a drain or collector.