The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-03 00:00:00

SOUTH RESER WATERWORKS.

It may be recollected that, about eighteen months
ago, attention was drawa in these oolunum to a new and
patently inexhaustible supply of pare water which bad bunk
forth almost sponteesously is the chalk pine at Grays, is
Essex, Dearly opposite Graveseed. When the discovery was
first made it promised to be an ythlng but an advertises to
the proprietor of these pits, Mr. R. Ifeedion, who carries
' on tlese very extensive lime and whiting works, which the
sudden rise of water from the Source of the chalk rook at
one time threatened to bring to sa oaeapected close. By
making various rosettes • aeries of channels oom-
municating with the river, sad by the employment of
powerful steam pumps, which keep lip • contimud Sow of
the water from these natural spnegs into the Thames at the
rate of 6,000,000 gallons per day, inundation is avoided,
although this constant outgoing fails to redoes the level of
the water in soy perceptible dopes. The quality of this
water is far superior to any spring or river water with
which London is now supplied. It is brieht, clear.
and sparkling, perfectly colourless, of an agreeable la
—is yielded from the chalk at • temperature of shoat 63
t.g.winter sad summer, and according to the testimony
Thesepsoe, Mr. llugald Campbell. and other eminent
analytical chemists, ta entirely free from those animal sod
vegetable impurities which at certain seasons of the year
render river and surface well water clangorous to health.
Its purity and softneu rendering it peculiarly adapted to
domestic use, it wee thought desirable, instead of allowing
so valuable • source of health and profit to run waste into
the river, to make it available for the water supply of the
several towns and villages of [South Essex, which are at
precomt generally dependent upon a comparatively few sur-
face well end water carrier., who cart round the water, re.
team it from house to house at so much per bucket-full ;
and possibly also us adjunct of the existing supply
of the extreme wisteria portion of London Resit.
With this view an set of parliament was obtained in the
last seen= for giving powers to lay down pipes from the
works at Grays to Purfleet, Word, Romfoid Brentwood,
Raynham, Barking, and other neighbouring localities, and •
company has been formed for carrying than powers into
effect. On Saturday last the secretary, with some of the
directors of the newly formed water company, attended at
Guys to point out to • number of gentlemen who attended
there on their incitation, the advantaged of this natural and
self-formed artesian well, as regards the qualities of the
water, the almost unlimited quantity in which it can be
obtaiood, and the pecuniary, advantages which are
likely to result to those who embark in the undertaking,
which in this ease will, it is euggeeted, be enhanced by the
absence of many of thous very expensive works which are
usually inseparable from water companies. The expla-
nations of Mr. Monson and Mr. Beale, pm the secretary
of the comps as as to the practicability and profitable issue
of the underlain, were held to be fully matisdaeiory, and
am faras sight and taste, hacked by the testimonials of
scientific men, could determine the point, the experiments
made upon the spot as to the quality of the water were
equally so. It was stated in the course of the explanations
that several ships in the Australian trade had been supplied
with the Grays water, and that it had in every instance re-
tained its purity throughout the voyage out and home.