Population growth means London's Victorian sewers can no longer adequately cope when the city gets significant rain. A vast new project aims to solve that problem and reduce the waste being pumped into the River Thames.
's Victorian sewers were built after the Great Stink of 1858, a stench from the river so bad that parliament couldn't sit.
We have more people flushing toilets and more of those tile and tarmac hard surfaces. To prevent sewage backing up into homes, it is deliberately dumped in the river. "But today, with all its development, with population growth, it's a very regular occurrence. And pretty much whenever it rains to any significant degree in London, it will be overflowing directly into the River Thames."The super sewer will catch those overflows and send the sewage to a treatment plant in Beckton, east London and in a torrential downpour it'll fill those huge tunnels. It's like a new river network under London.
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