Look inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and poo
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 14:33
in Physics & Chemistry
When tunneling concluded in 2022, a composer, Rob Lewis, performed in the future sewer. Tideway There is an enormous and serpentine new concrete-lined tunnel beneath London. For most of its 15.5-mile journey, it mirrors the curves of the River Thames, lurking as a subterranean shadow of the famous waterway, but well beneath it. Its job, when it’s up and running, won’t be to serve as a transit system for subway trains, or vehicles, or people—although a BBC reporter has biked in it and a composer has played the cello in it. Its purpose will be to carry a huge amount of sewage and wastewater, and if its impressive specs are any indication, it will do an excellent job at that stinky but important task. And in the process, if all works...