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Aquaducts and Cloaca Maxima

Aquaducts and Cloaca Maxima. By: Marie Warchol. Aquaducts. Served drinking water/supplied baths First built in 312 BC Many built underground (free of disease) 500 miles of aqueducts total in Rome 300 million gallons a day . Engineering.

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Aquaducts and Cloaca Maxima

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  1. Aquaducts and Cloaca Maxima By: Marie Warchol

  2. Aquaducts • Served drinking water/supplied baths • First built in 312 BC • Many built underground (free of disease) • 500 miles of aqueducts total in Rome • 300 million gallons a day

  3. Engineering • Combination of stone, brick and volcanic cement pozzuolana • When water reached Rome,flowed into enormous cisterns on high ground • Next flowed through pipes • Anyone could tap into network • Some pipes has a fee

  4. Cloaca Maxima • Main sewer of ancient Rome • 6OO BC • Drained valleys between the Esquiline, Viminal, and Quirinal Hills

  5. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct • http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php • http://courses.washington.edu/tande/urb/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_Maxima

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