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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$From the Engineer’s Report (W. Morris), furnished by the Kent Water Co. to the Water Board Arbitrators (1903), we learn that there is a third well, and get the following additional particulars :— The second well is 70 feet deep and bored to 250. Tho water-level is about 10 feet down when the engines are at rest, and is lowered to about 37 when both engines are pumping continuously. The yield is then 2,250,000 gallons in 2-1 hours, the water coming from the two boreholes. 9. Victoria Laundry, Avenue Road, 1907. Made and communicated by Messrs. R. Richards & Co. Water-level 14 feet down; when pumping at the rate of 2000 gallons an hour the level kept the same. Thickness. Depth Ft. Ft. [London C Clay 25 25 Clay | i Blue clay 50 75 [Blackheath f Sand and gravel [pebbles] 6 81 Beds, { Running sand 10 91 17* feet] ^ Rock 11 92* f Clay 2 m 1 Fossil and hard clay 51 100 [Woolwich [ Hard clay ... 10 no and Reading J Mottled clay ... j Hard clay 3 113 Beds, 391 feet] 7 120 | Sand and gravel [pebbles] 4 124 • Sciiicl ... ... ••• ^ Green sand and gravel [pebbles]... 2 126 6 132 f Sand 5 137 [Thanet Sand, 49 feet] | Running sand 31 140-1 j Soft sandstone 1 Running sand 1 2 141 21 162 Sand and fine gravel [flints] 17 179 l Green gravel [flints] 2 181 Chalk and flints 69 250 Bell Green, see Lewisham. Belvedere, see Erith. Benenden. East Benenden, 1906. Ordn. Map 304, new ser.; Geol. Map 5. Made and communicated by Messrs. Duke and Ockenden. Water-level 6 feet down. . Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. Yellow clay 19 19 Hard sandstone ... 5 24 [ Hard green and blue sandy clay 16 40 Blue clay 16 56 [Wadhurst Brown clay 6 62 Clay] 1 Blue clay 22 84 Grey rock 3 87 Blue clay••• ♦** ••• 44 131$