Arterial drainage works, water supply, and sewage drainage works, executed at Windsor, between the years 1867 and 1873 / by William Menzies.

  • Menzies, William.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Arterial drainage works, water supply, and sewage drainage works, executed at Windsor, between the years 1867 and 1873 / by William Menzies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTERIAL DRAINAGE WORKS, WATER SUPPLY, AND SEWAGE DRAINAGE WORKS, Executed at Windsor, between the Years 1867 and 1873. By WILLIAM MENZIES, Member. Read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution of Surveyors, April 21si, 1873. The works which I propose to describe in the following Paper are all situated on that portion of the river Thames which lies between the Windsor and Eton Bridge and the Staines Bridge. The whole distance is 7£ miles. The fall, per mile, of the natural bed of the river, is 2 ft. The average width of the river is about 200 ft.; the depth varies from about 4 ft. 6 in., immediately below Old Windsor and Bell Weir Locks, to 10 and 12 ft. at Anker- wycke; and the average flow per day at its lowest summer level is about 200,000,000 gallons. Before 1867 there was a difference of 10 ft. between its lowest summer level and its highest flood level. The Crown lands extend along the right hank of the river from Windsor Bridge to Old Windsor Lock. Geologically, the whole of the district from Windsor to Staines Bridge is usually spoken of as the London clay; hut, over it, there lie everywhere surface beds of Thames drift, gravel, silt, and alluvial deposit. Between Windsor