Thames Tideway Tunnel - Transforming the ecology of London’s river

Once completed the Thames Tideway Tunnel will be Europe’s longest and deepest continuous tunnel, travelling 25km through central London to intercept untreated sewage discharges that spill into the tidal Thames and pollute the city’s iconic river. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will create a cleaner, healthier River Thames and improve the quality of life for all Londoners.

[@dodgydruid]

My old granddad was one of the GLC execs at County Hall in charge of waters and sewages for London, he had the unkind nickname of "Walter Works" which led him to stop using his first name and adopting Bob but the nickname stuck until his retirement. The sewer "motorway" was a long wished for project that was always kicked down the road, I remember him taking me down to the Flood HQ in the old tram tunnel in Holborn, was so cool. I've also worked on the Kew Bridge engines back in the day with many a trip to Crossness before it got opened up to the public, Kew's 90 and 100 inch beams basically gave western London its water pressure through those two giant buckets but the 100 inch cracked its beam leaving the 90 inch to soldier on as the mainstay of water pressure for many years.

[@slawomirbialowas8808]

A fantastic initiative. An investment that translates into the health of all Londoners. IM very impressed. The Thames' water has always inspired me. Greetings from Poland.

[@kaimachineschannel]

A fantastic initiative. An investment that translates into the health of all Londoners.

[@London1064]

Brilliant piece of Civil Engineering.

[@edepillim]

In very rainy conditions all the water will go to Beckton where it will be treated before being discharged into the Thames. Human waste can still leave some viruses and toxins intact even after treatment so maybe not the best idea to spread on crops. Industrial wastes can sometimes contain heavy metals and poisonous substances if the discharge is not properly policed. In 1878 the Princess Alice sank after a collision with a Collier with the loss of 650 lives. It was unfortunate that just before the sinking, beckton works had just discharged raw sewage into the river nearby. Those that weren’t drowned immediately succumbed to various infections due to the filthy sewage in the river.

[@btudrus]

"to spread on crops" - growing crops is a very stupid idea, anyway.

[@kaimachineschannel]

cool clip, keep them coming

[@godbluffvdgg]

Amazing and complex project...The logistics are staggering...Hopefully there are videos of it's completion...

[@mikekavanagh8952]

A Good Project and wish them all well.

[@MrRasZee]

Its a great concept...the tunnel is the storage tanks so that the sewerage works dont get backed up

[@dr.scottcrullphd9133]

I used to work for CH2MHill in Sacramento as a project archaeologist

[@ttraderjim]

Chicago has a similar project. It's called the "Deep Tunnel". It works pretty good I think.

[@scottgibson7534]

In the 1990,s Miller Tunnelling put a new storm water tunnel from , "Abby Mills pumping station to Beckton works" to allivate this very problem.

[@robertbritton656]

Tideway will eventually join up with the Lee tunnel.

[@kasperholmj]

interesting to see how other cities deal with this issue. Here in Denmark cities pay the realestate owners to disconnect their rain water pipes from the sewers. Also on special voulnable streets the drains allong the gutters are disconnected from the sewer pipes and will be redirected to streams, lakes or harbours. The idea is not to use the treatment centers capacity to clean rain water in the first place...

[@dark_rhodie]

When your american: ITS THAMES MATE NOT TIMS TH AYYY MMMMM SSSSS XD this never ceases to crack me up. I remember hearing one of my friends was lost looking for the river tims and didn't know where it was. Lol

[@maxblinkhorn]

What a load of uninformed and trouble-seeking comments there are here. Oh wait! It's the internet. That explains it. Good project. Long needed.

[@francish5401]

A great engineering company great job on the five billion swerage.

[@bushyconn]

Amazing project. But not a word about its cost!!

[@Nitrxgen]

£4.2 billion, you can find information about it if you looked for it, this video is just from one of the contractors, there are multiple involved where the cost is split amongst them

[@tunneltech9976]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHnWZXaYi6mfnLc

[@DXWXMX44]

That's quite an achievement and tunneling machine!

[@andyjay9346]

My question is with these huge underground tunnels, do all the smaller pipes, wires rails and metal work stay IN the tunnel forever? No one addresses this.

[@global100mphplus5]

All the services you see on the video are there just to construct it, they are all stripped out just to leave a concrete tunnel.

[@marcosmota1094]

People need to breathe, see under lighting, and machines need all sorts of fluids. No one addresses it except for the big black dude who said that the tunnel would top off completely with water, or the narrator who stated that the collecting tunnels wouldn't be as deep as the main one, ergo the volume and force of the water would strip anything left attached immediately. Ding!

[@samuelfellows6923]

I think the utility’s will be removed - lighting, HVAC ducts, electrical/communications and the railway system. 😉

[@kaimachineschannel]

Hello, how are you doing today I hope you have a wonderful day?

[@davewalker8630]

Well if the Tunnel is dry, pity this company didnt build our traffic tunnel under the Yarra, here in Victoria Australia, millions and our tunnel still bloody leaks

[@ancientbriton8262]

While this will vastly improve the water quality of the Thames, I do wonder if the hundreds of years of sewage sludge accumulated on the river bed will still be a long term pollution problem?

[@Resenbrink]

What a great project.

[@stuboyd1194]

No mention if there are any plans to separate storm water from sewer water.

[@bio10155]

So whereabouts are you in this project? What's the update?

[@mozzy747]

Once again Britain shows the world its still an engineering powerhouse

[@downhilltwofour0082]

Amazing!

[@JustSomeBloke1]

"where we are sitting right now..." said a man who was standing to another person who was standing. (4'38") :)

[@choncord]

Eric Lund Sir, you are a dumbass

[@GBA811]

Wow, so if I understated clearly London is bulding a sewage system thats goes under Thames River, through much its extension? I've in São Paulo, Brazil, the city grew over a river basin full of hills, and most of the rivers are polluted here, and guess where the poorest lives? No isn't just the hills, most of the favelas are actually near steams or over it, the sewage company it is hypocritical saying that the poorest have illegal sewage systems that flows to the streams but most of the sewage that was supposed to be treated goes to the streams instead, yes some works have been done in this streams but most of it it's just channel the streams, build some banks, open some footpaths called a park, and then leave it to degrade, since 1992 the major river that cut the city it is in process of despollution but most of citzens thinks that will never be despolluted, and get used to it. After I've watched this video, I think it's the where to go, build an enormous sewage under the main rivers, and sewage goes to another enormous treatment plant before dump in the nature.

[@joea1433]

To GBA811 - There is a point in every ecosystem where any organism which over procreates suffers a mass die off. We don't want humans to experience that and to avoid it people must voluntarily control reproduction. Having a religion that prohibits that seems to be a major part of the problem.

[@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321]

i read about SP and recent floods. in britain, we have the ideal climate to compost all organic waste and to maintain a green cover of trees and shrubs. we can develop industry in rural zones and pull people away from the big cities. it's all possible and finally, it will be done.

[@MrRasZee]

I Captain Planet....approve this message

[@MACROPARTICLE]

Good, the sooner the Thames is cleansed of faeces, the better my fishing trips there, since there will be more fish to catch.

[@josealbuquerque6090]

So London has the largest sewage treatment works in europe and still the river looks like shit?

[@ja-dj5rq]

+Jose Albuquerque It's under construction only.

[@eeedward1996]

It always looked like shit mate

[@Nemoticon]

It doesn't look like shit actually... it's finally returning to health since its decline from the industrial era. Large colonies of wildlife is coming back and seals have even returned proving that. But more importantly, this new sewage system has not yet been finished.

[@donkmeister]

+Jose Albuquerque It's a weird fact of water in rivers, lakes, seas etc - if it looks clear, blue and inviting, it is because there isn't much microbial life. If the water is hospitable to life, it looks greeny/brown due to the amount of microbial life in it. Obviously for your drinking water or a swimming pool you don't want stuff living in it but the fauna of the River Thames is all part of a big food chain. You wouldn't really want to swim in the Thames any closer to London than Hampton Court anyway :-)

[@johnlewis9158]

The Thames is already a very clean river as far has rivers go that run through large cities. This is just taking it to the next level

[@12121149]

I don't get it ??? The sewage still goes into the river?????????

[@duotronic6451]

Why not separate the two systems like the rest of the world? Sewer goes to sewage treatment plant. Rain goes to river.

[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

Goodness what a lot of ecology, waste water management and assorted bigmouths we have on this particular video. However has London managed to survive thus far without the likes of dear old Deeremeyer1 and so on telling us how it all should be done. and using capital letters too! He really must be an expert!

[@khwaac]

That's some high tech shit management

[@tunneltech9976]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHnWZXaYi6mfnLc

[@vivekprabhu2651]

I'm stunned by your documentary. A developed country and it's capital is taking so late decision on it's river clean up. Hope it's not too late. We consider you as developed.

[@TCM-dw3pz]

Yep its too late, were doomed.

[@kingofracism]

gerard burton wrong, didn't you see bobs comment? We're doomed!! We're all going to die!!!!!! Omfg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bob please don't lie to me, we are fucked aren't we? Omg I'm literally shaking, bob thanks for the heads up, I need to get out of this country before this kills us all.. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@spencerwilton5831]

Vivek Prabhu the Thames is already cleaner than at any time in the last 300 years. This will improve things further.

[@peterd788]

Many European sewage systems were based on the diluted sewage overflow model. The Thames is a clean river by international standards. This is particularly surprising considering the river was declared biologically dead in 1957. It now supports 150 different species of fish and otters and seals. The most polluted rivers in Europe are the Danube and the Sarno in Italy (which is actually declared toxic).

[@xygomorphic44]

Why don't they just discharge the rain runoff directly into the river? It seems like a complete waste to put it in the sewer.

[@DustWolphy]

You need pipes to do that, hard to install after all the buildings re already built on top.

[@ewithnall]

If you’ve seen the trash people dump in the streets you would understand that rain runoff, which picks up all the crap it has run through, is not remotely clean.

[@philbox4566]

Seperate the stormwater from the sewerage. Simples.

[@DogsBAwesome]

They do in modern builds and have done for years, it's a bit hard to retrofit that to a million buildings on roads that are congested most of the time.

[@ivyblue1664]

At some point it has to be done, little by little, say over 50 years.

[@mikehurst4002]

We have a histroic problem here. Nearly every house built prior to WW2 has a combined system, to replace this with a modern separate system is total unfeasible.

[@peepiepo]

"simple" he says. You mean dig up the whole of london to install separate storm drains everywhere. Yeah, great plan.

[@jhogan1960]

It's not simple, the original system was built as a 'combined' system that drained both wastewater and stormwater. A lot of American cities had this, too.

[@charlessmyth]

Technical accomplishment, though it is, the tunnel too much encourages too many more people, to live in London, to the detriment of the development of the shires :-)

[@Nitrxgen]

... what are you talking about? the tunnel is being made because of growing population/pollution... the population isn't growing because a tunnel is being made... correlation does not mean causation

[@nickbeam5432]

tyloon you see the construction like this and other construction in many countries and your right but if you lived long enough like i have you begin to see a pattern and what you see is the construction getting done when it ether was not necessary or would not work anyway. and you get to figuring it out it takes millions of dollars for this project and that project funny thing is show the bill of sale on all merchandise that was bought for the project nine times out of ten you will never and i mean never get to see the receipts of all marital it took to build it WHY? momma needs a new pare of shoes Need i say more.

[@bastogne315]

Last time i went swimming in the Thames i picked up ringworm.

[@metalmicky]

You can’t swim in the Thames.........you just go through the motions !

[@KapitanKremmen]

@@metalmicky 🤔😟

[@jrregan]

OMG. 00:43 That is SO believable of a profile of the workers involved in this project. Yeah, I _really_ believe that.

[@robertbritton656]

You've clearly never been to a Tideway site then.

[@snuggles03]

To permit sewage to go into that river is absolutely disgusting

[@nigelhawkins5882]

cross rail is big wide of sites canning town limmo tunnels are good civil engineering as working on them for 5 mouths and pudding mill lane

[@robieb0i]

+Nigel Hawkins This isn't Crossrail..

[@BirdieBrietling]

All these tunnels and the Thames is still dirty as hell

[@stevenroth5424]

The planet needs an ice age, to heal itself of the the damage caused by our futtile existence. Hope there are none of us left when life reamerges..

[@TCM-dw3pz]

I totally agree.

[@danielfield2570]

I mean that’s a bit dark for this video and we can’t really make ice ages occur on demand yet

[@marcosmota1094]

Yeah, I'm that guy who roots for the comet on disaster movies. But hey, we now have Coronavirus, so our wishful thinking may yet come to pass.

[@labarone8910]

There's now a new plan. Because the Dutch are so clever, we will haul the sewage by barge and dump it in the Zuider Zee where the Dutch will kindly treat it for us. Bedankt mensen van Nederland, handen over de zee!

[@labarone8910]

Fun fact! The population of Greater London is almost exactly half of the entire Netherlands population.

[@james4243]

what the hell is that guys accent

[@philshaw3505]

Not like London to have a vast amount of public money spent on it is it 🤦🏼🤷🏻

[@MrMusic1950]

All smells a bit fishy ?₹ 90 mtrs down, gonna take some pumping back up for the tide to bring it back to central London. Spend this waste of money on making the m25 road surface safe for more than tractors.

[@umm_rm]

MrMusic1950 bellend

[@G4RY1159]

I wonder how many workers from the Top to the very bottom tea boy are Local Britain has been auctioned off to the highest bidder, just look at the state of Our Railways, a mess riddled with GREED

[@erepsekahs]

Thank God for civilization. Can you imagine how things would be if people from third world countries took over........if you see what I am getting at.

[@jassim1444]

hi

[@5taunch]

Diversity quotas in full swing I see

[@maryshaffer8474]

Need to create a bacteria that will eat all the sewage.

[@stevendavis7456]

mary shaffer pretty sure that’s the way all sewage treatment plants operate already.

[@Nitrxgen]

actually they do use bacteria to process the bulk of sewage already, the byproduct of which actually enables them to produce electricity that help run equipment (I was told by a Thames Water engineer but I never looked into it myself but he had been working there for decades so I have no reason to doubt him)

[@rahulrathod-vx6yv]

Civil

[@wheatdevon]

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” “...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all other (so-called) civilized countries; for by no others will civilized men be robbed, or enslaved.” ― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority "So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon stolen money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money, is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all who refuse them more money." -Lysander Spooner. (1870) -The payment of taxes, being compulsory, of course furnishes no evidence that any one voluntarily supports the Constitution. It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he is to pay a tax, and be protected. But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a “protector,” and that he takes men’s money against their will, merely to enable him to “protect” those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave. The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves “the government,” are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman. In the first place, they do not, like him, make themselves individually known; or, consequently, take upon themselves personally the responsibility of their acts. On the contrary, they secretly (by secret ballot) designate some one of their number to commit the robbery in their behalf, while they keep themselves practically concealed. They say to the person thus designated: Go to A- B-, and say to him that “the government” has need of money to meet the expenses of protecting him and his property. If he presumes to say that he has never contracted with us to protect him, and that he wants none of our protection, say to him that that is our business, and not his; that we choose to protect him, whether he desires us to do so or not; and that we demand pay, too, for protecting him. If he dares to inquire who the individuals are, who have thus taken upon themselves the title of “the government,” and who assume to protect him, and demand payment of him, without his having ever made any contract with them, say to him that that, too, is our business, and not his; that we do not choose to make ourselves individually known to him; that we have secretly (by secret ballot) appointed you our agent to give him notice of our demands, and, if he complies with them, to give him, in our name, a receipt that will protect him against any similar demand for the present year. If he refuses to comply, seize and sell enough of his property to pay not only our demands, but all your own expenses and trouble beside. If he resists the seizure of his property, call upon the bystanders to help you (doubtless some of them will prove to be members of our band). If, in defending his property, he should kill any of our band who are assisting you, capture him at all hazards; charge him (in one of our courts) with murder, convict him, and hang him. If he should call upon his neighbors, or any others who, like him, may be disposed to resist our demands, and they should come in large numbers to his assistance, cry out that they are all rebels and traitors; that “our country” is in danger; call upon the commander of our hired murderers; tell him to quell the rebellion and “save the country,” cost what it may. Tell him to kill all who resist, though they should be hundreds of thousands; and thus strike terror into all others similarly disposed. See that the work of murder is thoroughly done, that we may have no further trouble of this kind hereafter. When these traitors shall have thus been taught our strength and our determination, they will be good loyal citizens for many years, and pay their taxes without a why or a wherefore. It is under such compulsion as this that taxes, so called, are paid. And how much proof the payment of taxes affords, that the people consent to support “the government,” it needs no further argument to show.

[@SusanAmberBruce]

It was very interesting to read what you wrote however my opinion is that the government is too a complex and large body of people to compare to a highwayman robber, although at times comparing some policies enacted down the chain as it were, affords a good comparison to a highwayman robber

[@DogsBAwesome]

Best get all this done before brexit when we will have bugger all money for this sort of stuff. Personal opinion, I hope I'm proven wrong.

[@spuriouseffect]

Meanwhile, boats on the canals are allowed to dump directing into the water. Gross.

[@jamesshanks2614]

The only problem I see with the entire project is it's still a combined sewer. The only way to get your operating costs of sewer treatment plants is a two pipe system, one to bring sewage to the treatment plants and a second pipe system to handle rain runoff. This will have a severe impact on your operating costs. Until you face facts and finally start building a two pipe system you merely applying makeup to a bad makeup job. And increasing your costs to boot.

[@marcosmota1094]

Right, let's tear up the entirety of the city of London to re-route the run-off lines. Forget those cobblestone streets, and irreplaceable masonry work everywhere. Do you have a problem understanding distances/depths in meters? Do you know how gravity works?

[@brianw4brian]

eh! were the brits and visitors going mad with the smell of fecal matter coming from the London area.

[@thijsloon]

What a bullshit project. If an excess of dirty water in the river is the problem, decouple the wastewater from the rainwater system. We here in Holland were smart enough to do so 25 years ago. Every street that is rehabilitated also has to disconnect the grey water from rainwater and gets new sewage lines - all in one go. But of course that requires strategic planning and maybe even some inconvenience. Which doesnt make you a populair politician, so you short-sighted bureaucrats rater digg a multi-million tunnel to show off how good of a welfare youve got. Until the effects of brexit kicks in, of course. I can tell you as being a Dutch civil engineer, the tunnel will not be able to carry enough water and is therefore useless in 10 years. As more and more precious, water-draining soil and evaporating trees will get replaced with impereable pavement and roofs. And your pesky little stubborn island will only get more miserable and rainy due to our changing climate. Invest your money wisely, instead of ruining it for projects for the mayor to show off.

[@DogsBAwesome]

This is a private company initiative it's nothing to do with government. Holland has nothing as big as London, what you are proposing would bring London to a halt for years .Sure modern buildings in the UK have separate rain and waste sewers but adding that the millions of hundred plus buildings is never going to happen.

[@shalala4571]

Ya, same here in Sweden, rainwater goes straight to the rivers going through the cities, or the sea, altough in the bigger cities it gets somewhat filtered and cleaned due to more pollution on the streets. And shit and piss goes to the treatment plants

[@DogsBAwesome]

London has more or less the same population as the whole of Sweden so hardly the same.

[@deeremeyer1749]

Disconnect the "grey water" from the "rainwater"? The gray water IS SUPPOSED TO BE STORM RUNOFF. You're pumping "brown water" into that river because you don't have sewage treatment facilities to amount to shit and you're taking the "solids" and are hauling them out to sea and dumping them anyway. This is another U.K. "smoke and mirrors" project that will just divert the brown water somewhere else. Probably just a little further UPSTREAM or DOWNSTREAM of where it's getting dumped now OR into a "storage facility" so it can be pumped out CONTINUALLY but in "smaller quantities" instead of in big toilet flushes all at once now and then. And what's going to happen in that "storage facility? That shit water will get even shittier. Just like fresh water ALWAYS does unless it's "pure" to begin with and even then it will go "stagnant" over time if its not in a sealed container. And they're releasing what is "lightly treated" human waste as well. They "filter" it for trash and dead rats (I've seen the videos right here on KZbin so don't even try arguing unless you want to lose) and pump it into "settling tanks" that can't begin to keep up with the "demand" and have to be constantly drained to clean out the sludge that NORMALLY in those tanks breaks down and biodegrades as a volume of sewage is let in, the stirring system keeps the HEAVY WASTE from settling to the bottom and keeps it in suspension where the BACTERIA can "process" it and break it down. A TREATMENT PLANT should NEVER be "empty" completely because its keeping a constant, steady flow of sewage in and "clean" (and a good plant WILL discharge CLEAN WATER that's not "potable" but its also not TOXIC to anything that lives in the river or stream its discharged into) water flowing out. Its those BACTERIA that DIGEST the solids and consume the "nutrients". When you don't have enough capacity in the plant you can't ever establish and maintain that bacteria population and you'll never do anything but fill the tanks up with solids and let "clean" water that's still LOADED with nitrates and dissolved solids out. Those NUTRIENTS are what cause ALGAE BLOOMS in the rivers and oceans they're dumped into and they're also TOO LOW IN OXYGEN AND TOXIC TO FISH iwho WON'T stay around in die or anything unless a big flow catches them where they can't swim downstream. They'll just avoid the parts of the river that are too toxic to live in. Or at least the "mature" fish will and when they're not spawning. Their EGGS and the newly hatched fry and "baby" fish don't have that ability since they're hatched and "grow" in areas that are sheltered from currents and big changes in water temperature and levels IF the SPAWNING ADULTS can successfully mate and reproduce and can GET to those areas. But of course the areas where river-dwelling fish SPAWN are always UPSTREAM when its a TIDAL RIVER or even a non-tidal river since the further you go upstream in any river or stream the shallower and slower the flow is and the more "shelter" there is for spawning and laying eggs. And guess where SEWAGE OR TREATED WATER HAS TO GET DISCHARGED IN A TIDAL RIVER SO THE TIDAL EFFECTS ARE MINIMIZED SO DISCHARGE RATES AND VOLUMES AREN'T DRAMATICALLY REDUCED WITH A RISING TIDE OR DRAMATICALLY INCREASED WITH A FALLING TIDE? ESPECIALLY WHERE THE TREATMENT PLANTS CAN'T BEGIN TO KEEP UP AND THEY'RE PUSHING SEWAGE THROUGH WAY TOO FAST OR ARE PERIODICALLY STOPPING THE OUTFLOW OR AT LEAST SWITCHING IT BACK AND FORTH AS THEY FILL ONE "HALF" OF THE PLANT WITH SLUDGE BEFORE HAVING TO DRAIN IT, CLEAN IT OUT AND GET IT READY TO FILL UP AGAIN WHILE THE OTHER "HALF" IS FILLING UP? I can tell you exactly where sewage treatment plants discharge. DOWNSTREAM OF THE TOWN OR CITY WHEN THEY'RE NOT DUMPING UNTREATED OR HALF-TREATED SEWAGE AND THE PLANT IS DOING ITS JOB AND HAS SOME RESERVE CAPACITY FOR TEMPORARY "STOPPAGES" AND THE PEOPLE WHO SETTLED THE CITY ORIGINALLY WERE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THEY'D NEVER WANT THEIR SHIT RUNNING DOWNSTREAM PAST THE CITY REGARDLESS AND UPSTREAM FROM THE CITY OR TOWN WHEN THE MORONS WHO WERE IN CHARGE OF "PLANNING" NEVER GAVE IT THAT MUCH THOUGHT AND WERE EVEN STUPID ENOUGH TO BUILD THEIR CITY AT THE MOUTH OF A RIVER ON LAND WITH NO "CHANGE OF ELEVATION" SO THEY'D NEED TO PUMP WATER AND SEWAGE ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH NO "GRAVITY FEED" SO ALL THE SHIT WOULD RUN DOWNHILL OUT OF TOWN CONSTANTLY TO BE CONSTANTLY "PROCESSED" EITHER BY RIVER OR BY TREATMENT PLANT. To top all the centuries of stupidity of your biscuitheads in "government" decided to put that fucking IDIOTIC "flood barrier" in the middle of the river DOWNSTREAM OF MOST OF THE CITY LIKE A "STORM SURGE COULD FLOOD THE CITY ANY WORSE OR FOR LONGER THAN THE RIVER EVENTUALLY WILL AS THAT "FLOOD BARRIER" GRADUALLY DAMS UP MORE AND MORE AND MORE SILT AND SEDIMENT BEHIND IT. And yes, I KNOW the gates "open" but those GATES don't go anywhere NEAR the bottom of the river and what you have is a FULL-TIME UNDERWATER DAM and a PART-TIME "ABOVE WATER DAM" and even the NORMAL TIDAL FLOWS IN AND OUT OF THE "ESTUARY" ARE DRAMATICALLY EFFECTED AND CAN'T HELP "FLUSH" SEDIMENT AND SILT THAT COMES DOWN THE RIVER OUT TO SEA. AND THE WHOLE TIME THE TIDE IS RISING THAT RIVER IS SLOWING DOWN AND STOPPING AND BACKING UP. AND THE TIDE MAY APPEAR TO GO "OUT" FASTER THAN IT COMES "IN" BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE THE RIVER IS FINALLY STARTING TO RUN OUT TO SEA AGAIN. THE WHOLE TIME ITS SLOWING AND STOPPING AND BACKING UP ITS DUMPING ITS SEDIMENT LOAD BEHIND THAT STUPID "FLOOD BARRIER". AND THAT SEDIMENT LOAD IS ALSO MAKING THE RIVER MORE AND MORE SHALLOW AND WARMER AND WARMER AND BEFORE TOO MUCH LONGER NEW SEWAGE TUNNEL OR NOT, YOUR RIVER WILL BE DEAD IF IT ISN'T ALREADY.

[@fuzzzeballs]

or move to where i live so far from london i dont have to suffer the stink any more, esp the politicians

[@5taunch]

Diversity qu

[@dirkdiggler4667]

They are all foreigners or foreign origin on the video.Shame really but London is like another country

[@Clapham888]

Great isn't it? We get to enjoy all these amazing cultures without having to listen tothe incessant whinging of xenophobes like you, it's amazing.

[@5taunch]

Diversity quo