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In 1751 the Thames Navigation Commission was formed to manage the whole non-tidal river above Staines. The City of London long claimed responsibility for the tidal river. A long running dispute between the City and the Crown over ownership of the river was not settled until 1857, when the Thames Conservancy was formed to manage the river from Staines downstream. In 1866 the functions of the Thames Navigation Commission were transferred to the Thames Conservancy, which thus had responsibility for the whole river. We have identified required heights for all the defences in each phase of Thames Estuary 2100. Some defences may already be at the required height above sea level, but we will need to raise others. Thames Barrier closures and upgrading the upstream defences scope the need and potential creation of a Thames Strategy Central between Chelsea Bridge and Tower Bridge
In 1909 the powers of the Thames Conservancy over the tidal river, below Teddington, were transferred to the Port of London Authority. Laville, Sandra (23 January 2023). "Thames Water's real-time map confirms raw sewage discharges". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 April 2023. Throughout early modern history the population of London and its industries discarded their rubbish in the river. [56] This included the waste from slaughterhouses, fish markets, and tanneries. The buildup in household cesspools could sometimes overflow, especially when it rained, and was washed into London's streets and sewers which eventually led to the Thames. [57] In the late 18th and 19th centuries people known as mudlarks scavenged in the river mud for a meagre living. There are 7 end-of-century options for the future of the flood defence system. We will carry out the chosen option together with the other defence upgrades. A decision will be made on the end-of-century option by 2040. Upgrade the Thames Barrier
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Report of the designated sewerage company for the entire Thames Basin and major supplier of London's water supply: Thames Water" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2015 . Retrieved 20 November 2012. According to Mallory and Adams, the Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic name for the river, Tamesas (from * tamēssa), [3] recorded in Latin as Tamesis and yielding modern Welsh Tafwys "Thames". Two broad canals link the river to other rivers: the Kennet and Avon Canal ( Reading to Bath) and the Grand Union Canal (London to the Midlands). The Grand Union effectively bypassed the earlier, narrow and winding Oxford Canal which remains open as a popular scenic recreational route. Three further cross-basin canals are disused but are in various stages of reconstruction: the Thames and Severn Canal (via Stroud), which operated until 1927 (to the west coast of England), the Wey and Arun Canal to Littlehampton, which operated until 1871 (to the south coast), and the Wilts & Berks Canal. The Environment Agency also uses flood alerts and flood warnings to inform people about potential flooding so they can take appropriate action.
The River Severn Facts". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007 . Retrieved 17 August 2022. The Thames Barrier is on the River Thames just downstream (east) of the Isle of Dogs in east London. The walls and embankments work in different ways upstream (west) or downstream of the Thames Barrier. The early Ice Age". www.geoessex.org.uk. Archived from the original on 19 January 2016 . Retrieved 7 February 2016. The river and bridges are portrayed as being destroyed – together with much of London – in the film Independence Day 2. [106]In the 19th century the quality of water in the Thames deteriorated further. The discharge of raw sewage into the Thames was formerly only common in the City of London, making its tideway a harbour for many harmful bacteria. Gasworks were built alongside the river, and their by-products leaked into the water, including spent lime, ammonia, cyanide, and carbolic acid. The river had an unnaturally warm temperature caused by chemical reactions in the water, which also removed the water's oxygen. [58] Four serious cholera outbreaks killed tens of thousands of people between 1832 and 1865. Historians have attributed Prince Albert's death in 1861 to typhoid that had spread in the river's dirty waters beside Windsor Castle. [59] Wells with water tables that mixed with tributaries (or the non-tidal Thames) faced such pollution with the widespread installation of the flush toilet in the 1850s. [59] In the ' Great Stink' of 1858, pollution in the river reached such an extreme that sittings of the House of Commons at Westminster had to be abandoned. Chlorine-soaked drapes were hung in the windows of Parliament in an attempt to stave off the smell of the river, but to no avail. [60] Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Needham, P. (1985). "Neolithic And Bronze Age Settlement on the Buried Floodplains of Runnymede". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 4 (2): 125–137. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1985.tb00237.x. Thames and Waterways". London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015 . Retrieved 17 April 2015. Martian machine over the flooded Thames. Illustration from H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898)
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Since Roman times and perhaps earlier, the isostatic rebound from the weight of previous ice sheets, and its interplay with the eustatic change in sea level, have resulted in the old valley of the River Brent, together with that of the Thames, silting up again. Thus, along much of the Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water-meadows of rich alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods.
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