Effects of polluting discharges on the Thames Estuary : the reports of the Thames Survey Committee and the Water Pollution Research Laboratory.

  • Great Britain. Thames Survey Committee.
Date:
1964
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    London County Council (contd.), sulphide production, observations on, 2 Wandle, River, improvements of, 32 survey of Lower Mills Weir, 31, 30 London Dock, deposits, 132 London Transport Executive, 427, 429-430, 158 Long Reach, deposits, 132 temperature variations in, 167 Lots Road Power Station, 429, 158, 234 Lower Hope Reach, deposits in, 287, 132 proposed discharge of London sewage to, 96 Luton Sewage Works, effluent composition, 216, 78 Magnesium, determination, 575 in bottom deposits, 106-107, 182, 304-305 in sea water, 305 salts, for making manure from sewage, 95 Malaria, alleged relation to mud deposits, 96 Management of Thames Estuary, xvi, xxiii-xxv, 554-565 Manchester Ship Canal, deposits, 311 ‘Manoxol OT’—see Detergents, synthetic Manure from sewage, 94-96, 98 Maplin Sands, proposed reclamation of, by sewage discharge, 98, 57 Mardyke, 6, 48 composition, 48, 46, 24-25, 137 flow, 48 polluting load, 27, 47, 87, 123, 162, 177 Margarine factories—see Industrial wastes Marsh Farm Sewage Works—see Tilbury Sewage Works Matrix, banded, 419 displacement, 417, 463-467, 174-175 basic, 417, 419, 463-466, 174-175 for ammonia, 422, 174 for ‘ fast’ carbon, 421-422, 174 for oxidized nitrogen, 422, 174, 466-467 for oxygen deficiency, 423, 174, 467 for ‘slow’ carbon, 421-422, 174, 474 for temperature, 449 equations, notation in, 418-420 identity or unit, 419 mixing, 418, 155 Meat-products manufacture—see Industrial wastes Medway Estuary, 4, 59 polluting load from, 241, 316, 331 retention period in, 241 River, 6, 25-26, 49 composition, 49, 336, 137 at Allington Sluices, 49, 22 flow, 49, 21 polluting load, 49, 59, 177 Mersey Estuary, deposits, composition, 278, 292, 302, 182, 304-305, 307, 184, 311 free sulphur in, 340 position of chief, 292 source of, 322 shape, 17, 397 suspended solids, composition, 199, 130 survey, 3, 532 tidal bore, 17 Meteorological Office—see Air Ministry Methane, bottom deposits, formation in, 260, 331 in gas rising from, 315, 1/2] escape to atmosphere of, 193, 269, 331 loss of U.O.D. by, 326-327,'331, 134 oxidation of, 216, 331 Metropolis Act (1855), 96 Water Act (1852), 94 Metropolitan Board of Works, 95-96, 57, 98-99, 101 dissolution, 101, 104 duties, 1, 95-96, 98-99 establishment, 1, 95 mud-bank formation, denial of liability for, 98-99 records, 104-105, 126-127, 159, 86, 90, 161-162, 443 sewage disposal, attempts at profitable, 98 sewage treatment, experiments on, 101 Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, 95 Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company, 98 Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, Royal Commission on, 99-100, 128 Metropolitan Water Board, abstraction of water from River Lee, 36-37, 36, 14, 61 Thames, xxiii, 10, 8, 13, 26, 61, 520-521 records of River Lee quality, 38 supply of water to Beckton Gas Works, 239 Surbiton Works’ water used in experiments, 207 Microscopic examination of mud, 100, 324-325 Middle Ages, estuary condition in, 94 Middlesex County Council, records, 29-30, 8-9 Main Drainage Department—see Mogden Sewage Purification Works Millwall Docks, deposits, 132 Mixing, 390-406 as one-dimensional problem, 390 asymmetry of, 221-223, 396-398 possible representations, 399-400, 225 changes in concentrations of dissolved substances by, 408, 410, 417-418 constants, 329, 399-406, /53, 227-228, 410 effect of land-water flow on, 402 evaluation of, 401-402 by computer, 406, 570 uncertainties in, 410-411, 466 verification, 402-405, 229-230 related to observable data, 400-404 dispersion of substances by (see also Dispersion), xvii, 100 factors affecting, 395 movement of centre of gravity, 396-397, 223 displacement by, 396-397, 402, 153 landward, of nitrate, 330 of salt, 100 of sulphate, 258, 94 seaward (see also below, under exchange with sea), of nitrate from upper reaches, 247 estuarine, theories of, Ketchum’s, 392, 220 representation by simple differential equation, 392-395 limitations of, 394-395, 398 exchange with sea by, j gain of dissolved oxygen, 339-340, 139, 145 sulphate, 258, 94 ~ loss of ammonia, 217, 77, 329 dissolved substances, 329 organic nitrogen, 77 residual U.O.D., 347 suspended solids, 320, 326 U.O.D:, 3276329 5 flushing anomaly, 397 : in estuary of constant cross-section, 396 lateral, in rivers and estuaries, 390 length, 329, 399-400, 405-406, 417 longitudinal, in upper and lower reaches compared, 396 variation with tidal type, 390 matrix—see Matrix, mixing process of, 395-398 proportions, 329, 399-400, 228, 410