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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$90 4. St. Dunstan’s Brewery. Boring made and communicated by Messrs. Isler. Lined with 40 feet of tubes, of 8£ inches diameter, 20 feet down; an I 70 feet, of G inches diameter, 18 feet down. Water-level 25 feet down. Supply 3,600 gallons an hour. Well (old) ... 32 \ Chalk and flints 218 / 250 feet. Second Well, 1898. Lined with 100 feet of tubes, of 10 inches diameter, from 11 feet down ; and with 150 feet, of 81 inches diameter, from 4 feet down. Water-level 20 feet down. Yield 10,000 gallons an hour. Well (the rest bored) 9) [River Drift] Loam 6 > 252 feet. Chalk and flints ... 237 J 5. The Monastery, near St. Thomas’ Hill. Sunk and communicated by Messrs. T. Docwra & Son. Shaft (and iron cylinders) 150 feet, the rest bored. Water-level about 105 feet down. | Thickness. Depth. (London CYellow clay ... Clay, < Blue clay 491 feet] (.[Sandy bed ? undescribed] f Sand, with a bed of pebbles (over a [Oldhaven j foot) about 10 feet down [? base and Wool- <( of Oldhaven BedsJ, and a thin wick BedsJ | dark bed 7 feet from the bottom [ Sandy clay [Woolwich or Thanet ?] Live sand ... {Green sand with clay [Blackish bed, undescribed] Green sand [? Flints] Chalk, with four layers of flints in the top 12 feet Ft. 28 18 31 441: 4 26 25 31 55| 1023 Ft. 28 46 491 94 98 124 149 1521 208 2081 3101 6. St. Thomas’ Hill Clergy Orphan Asylum, 1856. Communicated by Mr. G. Dowker. Water-level about 120 feet down. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. Gravel ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• (Yellow claj^, with hard portions 3 [London interspersed 9 12 Clay, A Blue clay, with septaria 47 59 63 [Oldhaven, _ Imperfect claystone r 7 66 Woolwich, Sand 74 140 and Thanet ~ Beds] Bed with shells 5 145 Canterbury Waterworks, see Thannington,$