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Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question and sandrock sewers

To: pethier@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question and sandrock sewers
From: Nick Brearley <nick@landform.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:16:27 +0000
pethier@comcast.net wrote:
>
> I have mentioned that Saint Paul is a river-bluff town.  Our city datum for 
> elevations is USGS sea level minus 694.10 feet.  This is based on some 
> point at some steamboat landing circa 1850.  
Hi Phil,

Interesting stuff, labour must have been cheap in those days. A lot of 
Cornish tin miners emigrated to the US in the 1800s. Saint Paul would 
have been a natural home for them. One small point, could that datum be 
plus 694.10 feet?

Regards.

Nick Brearley
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