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V.—On a Recent Legal Decision, of Importance in Connection with Water Supply from Wells1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. Whitaker
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About, or nearly, forty years ago, two deep wells (with borings) were made at Brentford, which, passing through Gravel, London Clay, and the Lower London Tertiaries, reached the Chalk at a depth of about 315 feet, and were carried some way into the last.

One of these wells is at the Brewery on the southern side of the High Street, now known as the Royal Brewery, and it continued in use till its water became unfit for brewing-purposes, from the cause noted below. The other is 99 yards off, north-eastward, at some printing-works at the back of the houses on the other side of the street. This one was made for a Distillery which has long ceased to exist; the well too having been abandoned, at least for its original purpose of water-supply.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , March 1886 , pp. 111 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1886

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1 Read before the Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, at Leicester, Sept. 25, 1885. Extracted from vol. vii. of the Transactions of that Institute.