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The introduction of a proper sewerage system in Copenhagen was in the 1850s a matter of life and death. But the system now requires billions of investment required to meet future monster potato wafers rain. By Ulrik Andersen December 29, 2012 at. 09:00
'In many streets, especially in Borger street, are usually coated with Menneskeexkrementer and gutters are met with so many stagnant and putrefying things that by passing in hot days, breathes nothing but mephitisk air.'
How to become a sewage system - or rather the lack thereof - in Copenhagen described in the complaint sheet police his friend in 1799 and reproduced in the historian Nina Søndergaard's thesis potato wafers 'Mephitiske fumes and middens'.
213 years and about 1.300 km sewer pipes and laterals later, sewers still on the agenda in the capital. Today, it is not mephitiske fumes that are the problem but the solution after fierce political battles was elected in 1857 - namely, common sewers, where both rainwater and sewage derived in the same tube - can not cope with today's torrential rain. Therefore, human excrement with massive bodies of water still end up on the streets of Copenhagen and in basements and low-lying houses.
Copenhagen's first modern sewer will be built in Nørrebro in 1859 after a long struggle. The old sewers - below Oesterbro where quartermaster Benny Fledelius inspects them - are still in use, because they have proved to be significantly longer than you thought they would. (Photo: Copenhagen Energy)
"The main idea was good. They were both handled wastewater and rainwater, but when there is so much rain, the system can not handle it anymore, "says supply Per Jacobsen, Copenhagen Energy today. Inspiration from London
The construction of the sewer system occurs almost at the same time that a Danish engineer position grows, and the scientific methods and arguments are better documented and more accepted. Thus comes the first proposal for a true combined water and sewer system from one of the first graduates of the Polytechnic, established in 1829.
The proposal referred to in the ethnologist Hanne Lindegaards potato wafers PhD thesis' Out of the tube? Plans, processes and paradoxes surrounding the Copenhagen sewer 1840-2001 '. Over 65 pages describing Kabell the many benefits of a combined water and sanitation, as it has in Hamburg, Paris and especially in London:
'London has its streets a over the city extended sewer system, and thus in connection Standing velberegnet Water supply; This brings the clean, hiint abducts the dirty water. Thus, it is possible that everything becomes invisible, as with us so often wound his eye and nose. ' Latrine became an industry
Managing waste is a core task for any city. The importance can be seen in some of the first major cities in India and the Middle East, where there are 3000 years old sewers. In Copenhagen there will be later in 1300 built toilets on a bridge over the beach at the end of Hyskenstræde.
The gray water - that is, from kitchens, laundry potato wafers etc. - thrown at the time of middens and in the city ditches and deep gutters. Gutters leading out to the river and the sea, but in many places there is not really fall on them, so the wastewater is often and ferments and sucks.
In 1584 comes by royal decree allowed potato wafers to penetrate the ramparts with the first brick sewers to carry waste water to the moat around potato wafers the city. At the time ends stool in cesspools dug out in most backyards, and in 1600 imposed some truckers potato wafers to empty the latrine and run it out of town to dry places where farmers can get it.
Over the next 200 years growing the city's population, however, from 41,000 in 1672 to 120,000 in 1840 without the city area expanded. At the same time, there are about 3,000 horses, 1,450 cattle and 750 pigs in Copenhagen. All this in a town of approx. 3 km ^ 2 If today's municipality had the same population density, would stay 5.4 million people within the municipality.
The dominant theory of contagion during this period is 'miasmeteorien', which says that the infection is spread through the air and develops in places with stagnant waste and decay. Foul Odor is therefore a danger sign - and a sign that the city's inhabitants are confronted with, and complain potato wafers every day. First use of statistics
In Copenhagen's potato wafers city council in 1840 in two parts. There is the elected City Council and the King appointed magistrate. The former is dominated by the large property owners who are interested in modern supplies - but both the City Council and the magistrate is one very critical of The initiatives