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is remarkable in two ways: the attempt to drain it was one of the rare failures of Roman engineering, and the emissary is now completely above ground and open to inspection.
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The initial text of this section was an abridgement from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875 edition, public domain).
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excelled in the construction of emissaries, as in all their hydraulic works, and remains are extant showing that lakes
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Walter Dragoni, Costanza Cambi, Field Trip Guidebook for "Hydraulic Structures in Ancient Rome", field trip of the
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or variable-depth body of water. It typically leads to a lower stream or river, or to a location where a
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in Sicily: they were admired for their sheer size, although the workmanship was crude.
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can be economically run. Drainage tunnels have frequently been constructed to drain
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The most remarkable emissaries carry off the waters of lakes surrounded by hills.
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is said to have first conceived the idea of this stupendous undertaking
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inaugurated what was to have been a complete drainage scheme, the
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42nd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists
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were all drained by means of emissaries. The case of
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tunnel
drain water
stagnant
pumping station
mining districts
drainage districts

ancient Greece
Lake Copais
Cephisus
Phaeax
Agrigentum
ancient Romans
Trasimeno
Albano
Nemi
Lake Fucino
Julius Caesar
(Suet. Jul. 44)
Claudius
Tunnels of Claudius
(Tac. Ann. xii.57)
Emisor Oriente Tunnel
Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
Storm drain
Emissarium
full text
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civil engineering
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