The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.

Whitaker, William, 1836-1925.

Date:: 1908

Credit: The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2. A few hundred yards, in a westerly direction from 1. Lined with 135 feet of tubes, of 6 inches diameter, up to the surface. Water-level 99 feet down. Supply 500 gallons an hour. Thickness. Depth. Well [Folkestone C Loamy sand and stone Beds, < Rock 21 feet] (.Sand and sandstone [Sandgate Beds] Loamy sand ... [Hy the Beds, f Hassock^ 96 ^ (S rag ::: [Atherfleld / Atherfield clay Clay] \ Weald clay Ft. 12 2 7 4 79 10 7 3 8 Ft. 6 18 20 27 31 110 120 127 130 138 Brenchley. Mr. Marchant’s, G-edges, Matfield. Ordn. Map 287, new ser.; Geol. Map 6. Made and communicated (1901) by Messrs. Isler & Co. Dug 6 feet, the rest bored. 240 feet of tubes, of 4 inches diameter, 3* feet down. Water-level 221 feet down. Yield 240 gallons an hour. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. [Tunbridge Wells Sand] 'Clay and rock Yellow clay v Sand-rock 11 14 24 11 25 49 [Wadhurst (Blue clay... 381 87* Clay, Sand-rock n 89 195 feetj ^Blue clay 155 244 (White sand - rock 21 2461 Clay and rock ... 21 249* Sand-rock 24 273* [Ashdown Clay and rock ... n 275 Beds, <( White clay h 276* 56 feet] Clay and rock H 2771 White clay 131 291* Clay and rock ... 61 298 Sand-rock 2 300 Broadstairs- Waterworks. Three Wells in Chalk, 1859. Ordn. Map 274, new ser.; Geol. Map 3. 1. Richardson’s Pumping Station, at the eastern side of the railway, by the bridge over, just westward of Wrotham House. Water unfit for drinking-purposes, and used only for street-watering, etc. About 600,000 gallons a month pumped in summer. 2. Crampton Pumping Station, on the western side of the railway, just south of the station. Water contaminated by admixture of sea-water. Yield 70,000 to 80,000 gallons a day. Mixed with the water from No. 3. 3. Rumfieuds Pumping Station. Nearly half a mile sourh-south- westward of St. Peter’s Church. Adit driven to the boundary of the dis- trict (to the railway, west-south-west of Westwood Lodge, but not in a straight line ; nearly a mile in all).$