Novak-aqueducts

http://romansurvivalguide.wikispaces.com/Novak (to home page) Image C): nasht-01 @ DeviantART.com Roman aqueducts were used to transtport water from hundreds of miles away to the public baths, private homes, and foutains of Roman cities. Rome, being the largest city had the most aqueducts; eleven, built over the course of 500 years! Of course these structures took years of careful planning, particularly to the determine the water source to be used, depth, and length. There were several surveying tools, one of which being the //cohobates//. This tool was used to level out the area before construction, the wooden frame of this device was supported by four legs with a flat board that levels with the water. Beside having many types of tools they also needed to decide what sort of aqueduct to use: a //leat// or a //masonary// a leat,typically used for industrial sites, was smaller and much cheaper to build. A masonary was a normal-sized aqueduct that was used for more domestic purposes like baths and foutains (as I said earlier.) All the water, no matter what sort of aqueduct, empties into sewers where it is cleaned and waste is removed. Our modern sewer system is partly based off of this.