Second series. Concise statements of the main features of the plans for the drainage of the metropolis : sent in pursuance of the resolution of the Court, 20th August, 1849.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
Date:
[1849]
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Credit: Second series. Concise statements of the main features of the plans for the drainage of the metropolis : sent in pursuance of the resolution of the Court, 20th August, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [No. 76.] [Printed for the Use of the Commissioners only.] SECOND SERIES. ^Metropolitan §>etocrs. CONCISE STATEMENTS or THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE PLANS THE DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS, Sent in pursuance of the Resolution of the Court, 20th August, 1849. JOHN ADAMS, Esq., A.I.C.E. 11, Park Street, Westminster, 25th September, 1849. London is situate in a basin. The River Thames is the natural drainage of this basin. The present greatest limit of fall for existing sewers is to low-water mark, some 18 feet 6 inches below Trinity datum, and about 16 feet below the ground surface at Deptford, Lambeth, and Battersea. The present supply of water is weak and deficient. It appears to me that the grand objects to be desired, are to get an unlimited supply of water, with heavy pressure, entirely under the control and direction of the [second series.] a