Gravity Sanitary Sewer Design and Construction

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) represents more than 140,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide, and is America’s oldest national engineering society. Created in 1999, the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) is an Institute of ASCE. EWRI services are designed to complement ASCE’s traditional civil engineering base and to...

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(As developed by the ASCE Technical Procedures Committee, July 1930, and revised March 1935, February 1962, and April 1982)

The WEF Technical Practice Committee (formerly the Committee on Sewage and Industrial Wastes Practice of the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations) was created by the Federation Board of Control on October 11, 1941. The primary function of the Committee is to originate and produce, through appropriate subcommittees, special publications dealing with technical aspects of the broad...

B. G. Jones, Chair

This Manual provides both theoretical and practical guidelines for the design and construction of gravity sanitary sewers.

FOREWORD

In 1960, a joint committee of the Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) published the Manual of Practice on the Design and Construction of Sanitary and Storm Sewers. In 1964, a second joint committee was formed to revise and expand the Manual; in 1969, the revised edition was published. In subsequent reprintings, the 1969 edition of the Manual...