Why does London need a super sewer?

[lilelvis2000]

About time they put The City underground!

[DodgyAgent]

It will make a change - instead of LOndon watching all its hard earned turds go to scroungers in the suburbs(like Guildford) it will actually go to LOndon for once!

FTFY

[BrilloPad]

It will make a change - instead of LOndon watching all its earned taxes go to scroungers in the suburbs(like Guildford) it will actually go to LOndon for once!

[vetran]

If they build the super sewer will it get one of these?

No but saw this in an estate agents window

BBC News - Colombian man describes his 20 years living in a sewer

[OwlHoot]

As much of it seems to be rain water why does it all need to go to a sewage plant?

They probably need as much water as they can get to keep the pipes and conduits swilled out as best they can, rather like the average person needs to drink 5 litres of water a day or whatever it is.

[SueEllen]

If they build the super sewer will it get one of these?

[bobspud]

You can now smell the tulip when you walk around the city of London. It was probably always the same but since I have lived in the country air and get to smell the sewage that gets dumped on the cabbages its much more obvious...

[Paddy]

Why does London need a super sewer?

Beacause sh1t happens

[vetran]

As much of it seems to be rain water why does it all need to go to a sewage plant?

BBC News - Expert casts doubt on Thames Water super sewer plan


I suspect if they reviewed the options they could separate the water before it gets contaminated.

Yes you might need to filter it slightly (remove cigarette butts etc) but it wouldn't be toxic.

[scooterscot]

Or all the diarrhoea after your mate sold his 35 quid sandwiches?

There now 37 quid, inflation ya ken.

[scooterscot]

We need somewhere to put a;l the Scottish refugees when Scotland gains independence

That's awfully considerate of you. I suppose you need to house those wealthy Scots somewhere.

[DodgyAgent]

Could it be because of all the sheet SaSguRu talks?


BBC News - Super Sewer: Why does London need the Thames Tideway Tunnel?

We need somewhere to put a;l the Scottish refugees when Scotland gains independence

[Mich the Tester]

Or all the diarrhoea after your mate sold his 35 quid sandwiches?

[AtW]

It's to keep the super plague away.

HTH

[scooterscot]

Could it be because of all the sheet SaSguRu talks?


BBC News - Super Sewer: Why does London need the Thames Tideway Tunnel?

A Planning Inspectorate examination begins on Thursday into plans for the UK's biggest sewage tunnel.

The £4.2bn, 15-mile (24km) long, 200ft (61m) deep Thames Tideway Tunnel will capture 39 million tonnes of untreated sewage that is currently flushed into the Thames every year.

It will create arguably the biggest sewer network in Europe but environmentalists say it will cause significant disruption over a decade and that there are cheaper, greener alternatives, including "living" walls and roofs to drain rainwater back into soil and not into the sewers.

Tom Bateman has been down the current Victorian sewers to see what the problem is now.