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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![Blean Hill, westward of Canterbury. Ordn. Map 274, new ser.; Geol. Map 3. Prestwioh, Quart. Journ. Geol. Hoc-., vol. x., p. 406. To Chalk 160 feet. Bobbing. Ordn. Map 272 ; Geol. Map 3. Keycoll Hill, Sittingbourne Waterworks, 1871. About 204 feet above Ordnance Datura. Communicated by Mr. W. L. Grant, Surveyor to the Local Board. (S.E. Naturalist, 1902.) The thioknesses in brackets were given by Mr. R. D. Batchelor, whose account goes only to the depth of 398 feet. Shaft 160 feet, the rest bored. Headings (about 90 feet, N.E. and S.W.) at 153 feet. Water comes at the end of these. The old and new wells are connected bjr a gallery. Water-level about 122 feet down when not pumping. About 330,000 gallons a day pumped. In Dr. Sweeting’s Report (to the Local Government Board) on the Milton Registration District, 1901, p. 16, it is said that “ on an average only 19,000 gallons an hour can be pumped.” Thickness. Depth. [(? Oldhaven) Woolwich and Thanet Beds] Light-coloured sandy gravel ... Red and yellowish sand White sand Red sand Dark sand, with water .Large flints ... White chalk ... Hard vellow chalk Soft white chalk Hard white chalk Soft white chalk Chalk, 360 feet (5) about (15) „ (56i) nearly (3£) over about (41) (13|) Grey chalk. Yielded 125 gallons a minute 356 feet down 1 Hard blue chalk Soft white chalk Hard white chalk Soft chalk Gault clay [marl-bed] _ White chalk. Yielded L a minute about (4|) „ (23) „ ... over ...nearly ... about 150 gallons Ft. 4 16 10 30 57 3 170 24 4 6 14 32 4 6 2 4 4 90 Ft. 4 20 30 60 117 120 290 314 318 324 338 370 374 380 382 386 390 480 The Sittingbourne Works also partly supply the following parishes: Newing- ton, Halstow, Borden, Murston, Upchurch, Hartlip, and Rainham. Borstal, see Rochester. Boston Heath, see Plumstead. Boughton. Waterworks, 1896. Communicated by Messrs. Stevenson and Burstal. (S.E. Naturalist, 1902.) About 70 feet above Ordnance Datum. Shaft, with adits, 58 feet long by 6 by 3. Water stands 38 feet down. & g) 100 feet. According to Dr. F. Parsons the yield at the Boughton-under-Blean works is 64,800 gallons in 24 hours.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126737_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
