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Definition of Bacteria bed
1. Noun. Layer of sand or gravel used to expose sewage effluent to air and the action of microorganisms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteria Bed
Literary usage of Bacteria bed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Institution of Civil Engineers London. Engineering conference, 1907 (1907)
"I myself have always taken the view, since my early study of the subject, that
the bacteria bed, whether percolation or contact, is purely mechanical as to ..."
2. Annual Report of the City Engineer by Toronto City Engineer's Dept (1901)
"The effluent appears to lie and is purer than that of the septic tank alone, and
equal to that from a septic tank and single bacteria bed combined, ..."
3. The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Sewage Disposal Works: Being a by Hugh Percival Raikes (1908)
"... bacteria bed, or irrigation area provided for its purification, so that he
may be able to equalise the work as far as possible between all the different ..."
4. Sewage and the BacteriaL Purification of Sewage by Samuel Rideal (1906)
"... capacity in a bacteria bed does diminish the volume of sewage which it can
pass; and in the event of cleansing becoming necessary, the work of removing ..."
5. The Bacterial Purification of Sewage: Being a Practical Account of the by Sidney Barwise (1901)
"That an anaerobic bacteria bed (upward or lateral flow filter), filled with coarse
hard clinker may, with advantage, be made to take the place of part of ..."
6. Sewage-analysis: A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Sewage and by James Alfred Wanklyn, William John Cooper (1905)
"... persons interested in sewage purification is to beware of the bacteria bed
... the actual arrangements of the bacteria bed are not calculated to bring ..."
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