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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$7. Shortlands, at the house on the hill just west of the Railway Station (Mr. Wilkinson’s), Clay Hill, 1857. About 178 feet above Ordnance Datum. Communicated by Mr. R. B. Latter. Shaft about 59 feet, the rest bored. Water about 01 feet down. 24,000 gallons pumped in 24 hours. According to Sir A. Binnie there was a loss of 14 feet in the water-level in 4 years, the well never having recovered since the drought of 1887. Pumping, fora few hours a dajr, does not appreciably reduce the water-level. (R. Comm. Metr. Water Supply, 1893, Appendices, p. 169). Thickness. Depth. Sandy loam [? Surface-earth, or London Clay] ... [Blackheath (?.rave1, 10 lee^ ro . • 1 < Clayey gravel, [’varying up to] (. 21 feet f Blue clay, with shells of Ostrea and of Cyrena in fragments, partly conglomerated v.. about Pebbles. Mottled clay... Gravels, with Ostrea; of colour [clayey green sand with pebbles ; “ bottom-bed ”] about Beds] [Woolwich and Reading Beds, about 51 feet] { .. about a green l 1 [[Thanet Sand, about48 feet] f White sand | Marly sand I I Sand, more marly ... ... }about j Dark-greenish marly sand, | more marly at bottom ... J Detritus of flints [? the usual green- | coated flints at the bottom of the [ Thanet Sand]. Chalk, with flints (some thick) Ft. 10 22 I 13 6 10 [? more] 48 [? rnoi’e] 100 Ft. 10 32 45 51 61 109 209 8. Waterworks (Metropolitan Water Board), close to the Shortlands Railway Station, 1864. Second well, 1873. About 130 feet above Ordnance Datum. Communicated by Dr. W. Farr. Some particulars by Mr. J. Lucas (Journ. Soc. Arts, vol. xxv., p. 008.) Shaft 100 feet, the rest bored. Water-level (April, 1877), before pumping, 8 feet down ; after pumping, 18 feet. The engineer said that he could pump 5,000,000 gallons a day. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. [Thanet / Clean sand [? including gravel] 00 00 Sand] [ Marl [? clayey sand] 10 70 White Chalk 180 250 An account from Messrs. S. F. Baker & Sons, who sunk the well, is a little different, being as follows :— Gravel, 0 feet; [Thanet] sand ,58 feet. 10,000 F$