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Water Supply and Sewage?
MartinR:
We don't appear to have a "good read" section, so I'll pop this here as the next best place.
I've just finished re-reading Dulcie Lewis' fascinating book "Kent Privies". Well worth a read both for the detail and the humour (though it is a bit "jolly hockey sticks"). There's the tale of the lady sat on the seat when a weasel grabbed her bottom, but for Stuart's caution I'll just describe the sad tale of the public health inspector. He attended one dwelling where there had been persistent complaints of a blocked toilet at one dwelling. The council works department were calling in and on inspecting the manhole saw that the channel was dry. So, they got the rods out and started pushing to clear the obstruction. Loud screams were heard and an "irate lady" appeared who informed the workmen that she had been "enthroned" at the time the rods came through! ;D
Book details:AuthorDulcie LewisPlaceNewburyPublisherCountryside BooksISBN978-1-85306-419-7Date1997Call Number696.182094223Library CatalogK10plus ISBNLanguageeng# of Pages125
stuartwaters:
Waste from roadside rainwater gullies is unfortunately not easy to dispose of. Because it's come off the road, it will be contaminated with oil, so needs to be disposed of properly at a site which can separate out the oil. Facilities which accept this kind of waste are FM Conway in Dartford or CSG in Aylesford.
Sewage from sewer cleans is usually taken to the same places that the cess-pool tankers go, to any one of a number of sewage treatment works. The waste is pumped through a logger which measures the amount of waste you're putting through it. This waste then goes into the works with the normal sewage and is processed.
Sewage Works which take cess-pool waste in the Medway Area are:
Whitewall Creek Works
Ham Hill Works
Aylesford Works.
Other places I go to discharge through cess loggers in Kent are: Tonbridge, Ashford, Canterbury, Wetherlees Hill (between Ramsgate and Sandwich) and New Romney.
For a Pump Station clean, the situation is a little more complex, because pumping stations usually have a large fatberg floating in them. Because the "rag" element of the fatberg will block up a logger, this usually has to go to a specialist facility. Two I use regularly are CFS in Hoo (Kingsnorth Industrial Estate) and RWR (Stratford in East London).
Because the truck I'm on can recycle sewage and re-use it for high pressure drain jetting, excess water just gets put back into the sewer when the job is finished. When cleaning a pump station, it's standard practice to put the water back into the wet well, where the sewage goes and is held before it's pumped, either to the next pump station in the chain or to the nearest sewage works.
Dave Smith:
Back in the days before these large water authorities, Supply & Sewage was undertaken by the local councils. I imagine the artesian water supply down in the valley at Luton would have supplied the whole of the Medway towns. My Dad was an apprentice to a firm of artesian well borers in Chatham High Street in 1911- their HQ was in Woolwich I believe. Does anyone know whether it was a private co. or owned jointly by Rochester, Chatham & Gillingham Councils. I seem to remember sewage works in different parts of the towns. And the forerunners of Stuart's " goliath"- but not castle's horse & cart- were dark green tankers, with council name on the side & swinging arm with rubber sleeve that went down the roadside drains to empty the sump. I suppose it was relatively clean rainwater, so easy to dispose of. I'm sure Stuart can enlighten us on the disposal "tanks"? that get rid, or store, " nasties"? I think it would make interesting reading to the layman. We take so much for granted.
stuartwaters:
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Hodge:
--- Quote from: stuartwaters on June 08, 2020, 09:18:58 PM ---I'm based at the Medway depot and have one of the brand new Scania supersuckers, a 6-wheeler. Brilliant piece of kit. And no, I don't wear a tricorn hat, carry a brace of pistols or wave a dagger ;D
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That's a shame. I'll have to check our merch catalogues to see if I can get you a Scania hi-viz safety tricorn hat with reflective eye patch and bandana. Protective, eye-catching AND stylish...... ;D
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