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Proposed route. Black arrows show direction of boring machine movement, not flow of sewage. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a deep-level sewer along the tidal section of the River Thames in London, running 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Acton in the west to Abbey Mills in the east, where it joins the Lee Tunnel which connects to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
A BBC documentary entitled The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer focuses on the Thames Tideway Scheme. Charles Palliser's novel The Quincunx features the old, pre-Bazalgette London sewers of the early nineteenth century in an extensive sub-plot. The sewer system served as the hideout of Professor Ratigan in Disney's 1986 film The Great Mouse ...
The main sewer was 58,528 feet (17.84 km) long, and the Cray Valley Branch Sewer was 34,736 feet (10.59 km) long. [3] At the outfall the sewage could be discharged into the Thames at all states of the tide. The sewer was constructed of Portland cement concrete which was less expensive than brick. Bazalgette proposed that the sewer should be ...
It incorporates the main low level interceptor sewer from the then limits of west London's growth, and an underground railway over which a wide road and riverside walkway were built and run today, shored up by the sturdy retaining wall along the tidal River Thames (the Tideway).
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The Lee Tunnel, also known as the Stratford to East Ham deep tunnel, is an overflow sewer in East London for storage and conveyance of foul sewage mixed with rainwater.It was built as part of the Thames Tideway Scheme and runs from Abbey Mills Pumping Station down to pumps and storage tanks at Jenkins Lane, Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
The commission surveyed London's antiquated sewerage system and set about ridding the capital of an estimated 200,000 cesspits, insisting that all cesspits should be closed and that house drains should connect to sewers and empty into the Thames (ultimately, a major contributing factor to "The Great Stink" of 1858).
Bovril boats, also known formally as sludge vessels, [1] were specially designed sewage dumping vessels that operated on the River Thames from 1887 [2] to 1998. Their task was to remove London's human solid waste from Beckton and Crossness for disposal on the ebb tide at sea, at Black Deep, an extremely deep part of the North Sea fifteen miles off Foulness, on one of the main approaches to the ...