Talk:Aqueduct

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68.9.107.138 16:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)In one of the Hornblower books HH travels to London by boat in a new canal/aqueduct complete with tunnels. Is this a real thing?

To answer my own question: Nope. that's the Thames and Severn Canal.


In the history section, 4th para it says "The developments of new materials (such as concrete...". i thought the Romans had concrete? including hydraulic concrete? David Woodward 06:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] 1911 addition

There is a general guideline that 1911 text before it is added needs to be vetted against modern sources and re-written to modern standards. Raw dumps are not good form (wikilinks and section breaks are a minor part). This article was fairly concise, now it is real hodge-podge of raw-1911 text and other Wikipedian text. I would like to suggest removing the 1911 text, everting back to the previous article before too much time has passed, and instead add the 1911 article to the References section, either with a link to an online source, or if none exists, recreating the article in Wikisource. Comments. Stbalbach 17:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roman aqueducts

I propose creating a new article that specializes on Roman aqueducts. It would contain much of the historical information in this article, and add additional information, including a summary of facts and figures for aqueducts in the ancient Roman world. I think this would be useful because although this page is properly about aqueducts in general, much (most?) of the information on this page is really about Roman aqueducts. And although there are pages already for specific Roman aqueducts, there is no general page to speak about the overall system. Opinions, anyone? Mlouns 20:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Great idea I would support that makes a lot of sense. With a section here called "==Roman aqueducts==" with a 1-paragraph summary and "Main article" tag to the Roman aqueduct article. --Stbalbach 22:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


I had no idea what this article was talking about until I read this and looked at this. -anon


it did not help me with what i was looking for... but it has good information for facts about the aqueducts only. Σκατá <--- greek for poo

[edit] Water slide

Would a waterslide be considered an aqueduct? Heh. Fredil Yupigo 22:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions. List of aqueducts. Templates.

1. In order to make the article more readable we need to move the list of aqueducts to a new separate article similar to List of reservoirs and dams in the United States.

2. In order to make aqueducts articles readable, we need to use a infobox similar to Template:Infobox_lake or Template:Infobox_Dam. The following attributes are suggested:

  • name
  • location, e.g. Wales.
  • location, coordinates (longitude, latitude) in "coor" format
  • image
  • image caption
  • tunnel or channel
  • length
  • section - rectangular or circular
  • width and height (may be many)
  • diameter (may be many)
  • what it connects
  • maintaining entity
  • opening date
  • closing date?
  • date construction began

A request to create a template has been submitted Wikipedia:Requested_templates

Solarapex 11:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template now exists

A new template has been created. It might not have as much stuff as you want, but it's a start. It is Template:infobox_Aqueduct and the two types I designed it for are used in Quabbin Aqueduct and Chicopee Valley Aqueduct. Cheers --LymanSchool 00:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

A number of links in this article are completely irrelevant. (e.g. "digging", "spur", "highway") Needs a fix? 70.179.127.215 01:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lead

I heard that there was lead on the aqueducts, or somewhere near them, which contaminated the Roman water supply. It's not mentioned in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex.petralia (talk • contribs) 22:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC)