Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 407
UDK: 600 eng- gl
With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams
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HOW LONDON GETS ITS WATER.
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MAP OF WATER LONDON, SHOWING THE NEW RIVER, AND THE PRINCIPAL INTAKES, WELLS, PUMPING
STATIONS, AND RESERVOIRS.
The five districts—the New River, Eastern, Western, Southern, and Kent—are named in large type, and
their inside boundaries are indicated by fine dotted lines.
voirs scattered all over the area, and situated
_ at a sufficient elevation to give
Reservoirs. . ...
a good head or pressure in
the service mains. The Kent well water, be-
ing pure initially, is delivered direct to the
service reservoirs ; whereas that taken from
the Thames and Lee flows or is pumped first
into large low-level storage reservoirs—where
a large proportion of the slight amount of sus-
pended matter is deposited—and then is passed