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Water supply and sewage disposal in permafrost areas of northern Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

H. B. Dickens
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Although the principles of water supply and sewage disposal in the north of Canada are the same as those for more temperate regions, the physical features of the installations often vary with the influence of low temperature and permafrost. These not only create technical problems of design but, when coupled with the relative isolation of most northern sites, they also introduce serious economic considerations. Operating costs as well as initial construction costs are higher, making facilities of the kind normally provided too expensive for many people.

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Polar Record , Volume 9 , Issue 62 , May 1959 , pp. 421 - 432
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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