Waterworks which will be the largest in the world arc being built 16 miles from London. The reservoir covers 725 acres, and has n. capacity of 30,133,928 tons, ■or 6,750,000,000 gallons, drawn from )hn Thame?. Three meters with throats sft. wide jiassi in 100 million gallons of water daily from tin* groal intake channel, lipllor sluices 6ft by sft fend thr> water into a draw-off tower, standing in the roservoir, vrhrncp, finally, it. is sucked down rho steel throat?. 6ft. wirfp. of three pipe?, and «•> over (li<! nmbaii!s'ji!?nf, into .tha uiiin, for tho me of Londqn'a njiliioiu.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 11
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97Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 11
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