Explore: Intercepting Sewers

project included the construction of intercepting sewers north and south of the Thames; the Northern Outfall Sewer diverts flows away from the Thames north

opened on 13 July 1870. The intercepting sewers, constructed between 1859 and 1865, were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that, in turn, conveyed

project included the construction of intercepting sewers north and south of the Thames. The Southern Outfall Sewer network diverts flows away from the

Works, a pioneering Victorian civil engineering project which housed intercept sewers, roads and underground railways and embanked the River Thames. It consisted

flow and a limited amount of stormwater directly into the river. If intercepting sewers and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

about smells and epidemics. "Intercepting sewers" were therefore built on either side of the St Mirin burn to intercept the sewage and discharge it directly

from 6 inches to 27 feet in diameter. The intercepting sewers are fed by approximately 10,000 local sewer system connections and are critical in managing

Sewer, is obvious except at high tide. The combined sewer aims to be caught only by two intercept sewers capable of its flow, the Middle Level Sewer and

London Underground. The intercepting sewers, constructed between 1859 and 1865, were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that, in turn, conveyed

facilities; 490 sewer regulators; and 7,000 miles (11,000 km) of intercepting sewers. The NYW finances the capital needs of the water and sewer system of the