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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$9. Sidcup New Homes, Halfway Street, about 900 yards Sidcup Railway Station. 1903 ? Communicated by Mr. T. Dinwiddy (to Mr. T. V. Holmes). Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. f Ballast 5 5 Loam and sand 4f 9| [?01dhaven Beds] Soft shells Ballast and sand 2* 2 12i 14i Hard shells _3 15 Clay and ballast H 16!r ( Sand and clay... 5 214 Shells and blue clay ... 24 24 Hard shells 2a 264 Shells and clay 2 284 [Woolwich Beds, 34J feet] (Hard clay and shells... J Small shells 3 3i 314 35 j Black clay i Coloured [mottled] clay 14 3 36 39 Hard sand 2 414 Grey sand and pebbles 3a 45 Green sand 11 56 Live [Thanet] sand 72 128 Chalk ••• ••• ••• ••• 122 250 from 10. Wansunt Pumping Station of the Metropolitan Water Board. About half a mile from Crayford. From the Engineer’s Report (W. Morris) furnished by the Kent Water Co. to the Water Board Arbitrators, 1903. 32J feet above Ordnance Datum (the larger well), the other apparently a little higher. 1. Small shaft about 16 feet, then a large boring, lined to 784 feet down. Loam about 11) [Upper Chalk]{|»«dChcSk,aS 228 j ^ ^ 2. Large shaft 18 feet. Cylinders 34 feet deeper and rising over 8 feet in the shaft. Section as above, but about 18 inches less loam. Before the well was finished a supply of 2,000,000 gallons a day was got. Birchington. Waterworks, see Westgate. Blackheath. Shooter’s Hill Road. Next house to the Sun in Sands (No. 123). Communicated by Mr. C. Haworth, of Eltharn. Thickness. Depth. Woolwich[a'nd \ t? and sa,,d- at bottom] Thanet Beds] (.Whlte ^ Chalk Ft. 104 5 30 Ft. 104 109 139$