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
Licence: In copyright
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. Electric Light Station, 1900. Made and communicated by Messrs. Le Grand and Sutcliff. 100 feet above Ordnance Datum. Borehole of G inches diameter. Coloured clay Gravel ... rT , -i f Sandy clay [London Clay] j Blue clay aucl munciic , [?01dhaven Beds] Sand [Woolwichand f Clay, shells and pebbles Reading Beds, < Mottled clay 37 feet] Clay and stone (Sand [Thanet j Hard sand (almost rock) Sand, -] Sand 52 feet] | Hard dry clayey sand ... [Green flints [Upper] Chalk and flints Thickness.] Depth. Ft. Ft. 4 4 2 G 4 10 15 25 16 41 15 5G 17 73 5 78 27 105 1 106 12 118 11 129 1 130 120 250 3. Elmer’s End Brewery, Messrs. Pontifex and Hall, 1881 ? About 136 feet above Ordnance Datum. Made and communicated by Messrs. Le Grand and Sutcliff. Bored throughout. Water rose 4 feet above the surface. Supply 10,000 gallons a day of ten hours. According to Sir A. Binnie the water-level has been lowered by the sinking of a well in the neighbourhood, to 4 feet down. (R. Comm. Metr. Water Supply, 1893, Appendices, p. 169.) Thickness. _FtT~ Depth. Ft. [Oldhavec Beds, 18 feet] [Woolwich and Reading Beds, 39 feet] [Thanet Sand, 53 feet] Brown sand Grey sand Shells and concrete Shells and clay ... Hard white stone Coloured [mottled] clays Black [flint] pebbles Green sand and black pebbles 'Live grey sand ... Dead sand Flints [Upper] Chalk and flints 3* 14i 4* n 2 13 4 8 47 4 1 70 9,9 —J 45 49 57 104 108* 110~ 180 4. Elmer’s End, Messrs. Muirhead and Co.’s Electrical Factory, 1897. Made and communicated by Messrs. Le Grand and Sutcliff. 107 feet above Ordnance Datum. Borehole of 10 to 8 inches diameter. Made ground Yellow clay Grey sand Shell-rock Clay and shells Mottled clay Pebbles, clay and sand Green sand and pebbles [Thanet] Sand [Upper] Chalk and flints [Oldhaven J Beds] ( [Woolwich and Reading J Beds, ) 38 feet] Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. G G 2 8 1G 24 1 25 13 38 15 53 4 57 5 62 5G 118 115 233](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126737_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
