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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![Well, made and communicated by Messrs. Docwra. In this cylinders were carried down to 141^ feet. The section is as follows. A large supply has been got. Thickness. Depth. Ft. in. Ft. in [River Gravel] Ballast, as in the above 19 0 19 0 Hard yellow sand... 28 0 47 0 Hard sandy clay ... 3 6 50 6 Grey sand-rock ... 14 6 65 0 Green rock-sand and rock 9 0 74 0 Green sandy clay... 4 7 78 7 Green sand-rock and shells 3 0 81 7 Green sandy clay... 8 11 90 6 Shingle and rock ... 0 6 91 0 Green sandy clay 1 3 92 3 Sand-rock ... 3 0 95 3 Hard green sandy clay and beds of rock-sand 35 9 131 0 Hard rock and sand 3 0 134 0 G reen sandy clay... ... ... 8 3 142 3 Hard grey sandy rock ... 2 0 144 3 Black clay... 7 0 151 3 Hassock and rock 73 9 225 0 Weald [Atherfleld] clay... (Total given as 261.) 37 o | 262 0 3. Friend’s Wood (not so called on the old Ordnance Map), over half a mile N.N.E. of Boxley Grange, for the water-supply of Maidstone. Communicated by Mr. S. C. Homersham. Height of the top of the well above Trinity high-water-mark 382 feet error], A shaft sunk 386| feet, and then 213^ feet bored [?more]. Thickness. Depth. Clay-with-flints Ft. in. 3 0 Ft. in. 3 0 ' Soft chalk, 13 beds of flints (6 to 12 inches thick) 52 1 55 1 Hard chalk 1 8 56 9 Soft chalk, 7 beds of flints (3 to 6 inches thick) 17 4 74 1 Hard chalk 3 7 77 8 [Chalk, chiefly soft, with flints], < Soft chalk, 2 beds of flints, and some scattered flints 10 11 88 7 Hard chalk, a bed of flints ... 5 9 94 4 203f feet Soft chalk, 2 beds of flints ... 5 8 100 0 Hard chalk 3 0 103 0 Soft chalk, 5 beds of flints (3 to 12 inches thick) 28 11 131 11 Hard chalk 2 0 133 11 Soft chalk, a bed of flints (damp [ places 3 and 42^ feet down) 72 10 206 9](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126737_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
