MINE – WATER FLOODING

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 2

MINE - WATER FLOODING

'The proposal for a gravitation, system of oVatiiicge from- the Impeai.al Cuty shaft, a«s a solution of the iniui«. waiter flooding ipiroblem, received a* seitJ-baok. if not i*s dearth knell, at last meetimg: of the Borough Council. Mr E. F. Adatms ocmdoiiincd the pro\>osa»li a« it would notti provide relief for Grahainst<*wn. The wa'ter-le«vel m t2xe Saxon shaft, was scone 2fib 9'in lower tihan! in the Imipei'iad City shiaft. so tihaiti a draiuii fvcmi tiie lafctor would haivg tf» be wdll down to eatiaiblMi & gradient which would diaw water frooni the Saxon shaft and vhm relieve Graliainstown. l"hc s would be imipoasible seeing tlLait tlie mud'flait level gonrerned the depttih whadx could U «ecnurbd.

Discnismng this, the Mayor said thajt Mr Adarag oonsiderod the eohemo was not, ptraotdcaiblo. X givwa effeot; to, the depth of effective drainngp about Mr Rawe'e place would be 2tt 6m, whale ait high tn.des the undeigroumd wa.tea« kirel would b© 10 inches fleam- tihe suirfaoe and at spring tides 2ft 3 iracJves neareir the surface- Tljo only thing to be done wag toga bao!c to the proposal to pump eleotricrtlly I down a covered condtiii with manholea. The only quearion was whether the water could be taken round Upper PoJlen Street down W3liamson; Street.

O. Baddy: I'd should be taken, out of Albert Street. We are draining down' owe of -the worab afereeta. The, Mayor: It is the lowest et,reet m the Bofougfh.—O^e gu«)tion was defettied till next meetiing to obtwiw furtiher inlormartlion.