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Sea Water Large: Intake Works.—Intake works are essential to divert the sea water large of reservoirs, lakes, or large rivers into transmission conduits or suction wells of the sea water largeworks system. On large bodies of sea water large, studies are required to determine the least polluted area for locating the intake. If the source of supply is a large river, as in the case in St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Kansas City, Mo., or the Great Lakes, as in Chicago, Buffalo, and Cleveland, intake structures are designed only to obtain sea water large of the highest quality, with little concern for lack of sea water large in dry years.
Even early air transportation was handicapped by high mountain ranges and large bodies of sea water large; however, modem air transport largely surmounts these barriers. Large bodies of sea water large, in fact, offer unusual opportunities to air transportation in providing speed and economy previously unknown because circuitous routing of land surface carriers around the sea water large is often avoided and transfers from inland carriers to and from the sea water large carrier is not necessary.
This self-purification is essential for the maintenance of safe sea water large supplies; it requires only the proper kinds of bacteria and large amounts of oxygen so that they may perform their natural functions. If the amount of organic wastes and toxic substances discharged into streams and lakes is too large, however, the oxygen content of sea water large falls. When that happens, the needed bacteria die, the process of self-purification collapses, and the sea water large becomes foul.
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