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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$Betteshanger see Northboiirne. Bexley- Ordn. Map 271, new ser.; Geol. Map* 1, S.W., London and its Environs, and London District, Sheet 4, new. 1. Brewery. Messrs. Reffell’s. Made and communicated by Mr. W. It. Reffell. Shaft nearly 6 feet, the rest bored, with pipes to 80 feet. Water-level in the gravel about 51 feet down; from the Chalk 2\ feet down. It rose to this level when the Chalk was touched, and remained at it afterwards. Pumped, for 14 hours, 50 barrels an hour. Supply good and apparently inexhaustible. Temperature of the water 52° F. Thickness. Depth Gravel, waterlogged Ft. 18£ Ft. 18* [? Thanet Beds] Sandy clay or loam, imper- [ vious to water ... m 341 „ Flints ... r-.. i 35* [Upper] Chalk Soft chalk, with beds of flints, and with water ... 39f 75 ^Hard chalk 98 173 Before this well was made the Brewery was supplied from a well', 12 feet deep in the gravel. From this the same quantity was pumped as noted above, never reducing the level of the water lower than to 10 feet down ; but the quality was bad, with indications of sewage-contamination. 2. Bexley Heath. Proc. Geol. Soc., vol. iii., no. G5, p. 151 (1839). Gravel and sand [Blackheath, Woolwich, and Thanet Beds] 140 \ 1„Af , Chalk 30j-170 feet 3. Bexley Heath. Brampton Place. Communicated by Mr. W. Morris, from information given by Mr. Venner of Bexley. Steined, to Chalk [?to firm chalk] 129 \ 1(-Ql . . Chalk 30£ / teet* Headings driven, to get chalk, at about 140 feet down. 4. Bexley Heath, near the Lord Bexley’s Arms. Dr. James Mitchell’s MSS., vol. iv., p. 261. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. Gravel [Blackheath Beds] 60 60 (Loamy sand ■7 67 [Woolwich Beds] < Loose blowing sand, white, dry 15 82 C, Stiff clay 8 90 Coarse [Thanet] sand 45 135 Chalk ••• Mt ••• mi ••• ••• 18 153 F 2$