Journal Article

Scavenging work is carried out by a staff of seven drays and 14 labourers in South Adelaide, by two drays· and two labourers in North Adelaide, and by 13 street orderlies in the central or business portion of the city. About 60 c. yd. of refuse are removed daily in the city. A Thornycroft pressure water sprinkler is also utilised. The city's refuse is treated in a two-unit Heenan and Froude destructor which was built in 1910 each unit consisting of three furnaces with forced air draught, together with combustion chamber and offal grates. The steam plant comprises two B. and W. water-tube boilers with superheaters. The bituminous concrete mixing plant was erected in 1926, the output being 120 tons per day in batches of 1,000 lb. During the year ended September, 1930, the plant produced in 101 days 3,091 tons base coat, 2,948 tons seal coat and 773 tons cold-mixed screenings, using 100,879 gal., or 412 tons of bitumen.