Inside London's super sewer: The tunnel designed to keep sewage out of the Thames
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- London’s new super sewer is a monstrous concrete pipe that runs roughly along the course of the River Thames, from Acton to Beckton, 25 kilometres in total. It is designed to solve a problem that London and many other cities have been grappling with for decades - the discharge of raw sewage into the river.
In around a year, the project will be complete. The lights will be removed, the access shafts capped, and the tunnel plunged into lonely darkness for at least 120 years. It is possible that we are among the last people to set foot in it. Join us as we go deeper underground.
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Didn't know London had underground super sewer as well as the sandal sewer above.
makes me feel proud to know my waste will be utilising that tunnel.
I'll give them 5 months before they need to deal with a backflow issue and find out its gonna need another years work to sort it out.
@@Nick-ye5kk you don't understand satire .... Which is sad, as yes, the project has essentially been completed for some time but oh well
pure genius .. comes from trial and error
we enjoy watching this
Really nice interview
Maybe a London with the Thames river with clear water in a handful of years, I guess we will see.
The thames is full of sediment though so it will be murky regardless
The engineer mention great london hero mane,
But what does it sound like?
title is wrong. it isn't in use yet so it isn't keeping anything out of the thames.
thames water is also being disingenuous about the 60 times it discharges, what's more relevant is the amount discharged not the number.
it was fined £4m last year alone with one discharge lasting 30 hours.
there was another discharge into the river coln which lasted for 745 hours.
Maybe if people ate a bit more fibre and a few less Big Macs we wouldn’t need this
Fibre results in far more "stuff" going into the sewers (the Big Mac people will just be constantly constipated).
The main issues are things like wet wipes and fat/oil poured down drains, but really this is required because the population of London is far bigger than when the Victorian sewers were built and it simply doesn't have the capacity anymore.
We should've had advanced privy's that tackled any hygienic and health issues by now, can't shy away from necessary function or deprive nature of its food. If you place convenience over necessity you are risking destroying necessity.
What?
nuclear shelter
Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius
London is not london anymore
This country has let in millions of refugees and imagrants and not done a thing to improve waste and sewage till now victorian water system for a small country now over populated and sewage running into rivers and seas. Disgraceful nothing has been done till now.
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