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Known as the London “super sewer,” the tunnel was officially opened by the King after 10 years of construction. Measuring 25km long and able to hold more than four million gallons of sewage ...

Tideway said the super sewer will reduce sewage pollution into the river by 95%.Thames Water will then operate the system as part of its London wastewater network. The King met construction workers ...

“This project buys London time to be smarter about what it does with rainwater, because going forward it isn’t sustainable to be putting rainwater into the sewer system, because it fills up.” Climate ...

London has a combined sewer system, which means sewage and rain flow into the same pipes. Storms frequently overwhelmed the system, spilling around 40 million tons of sewage into the Thames annually.

The “super sewer” will “virtually eliminate” that problem, according to Tideway. Some of the new tunnels are more than 200 feet underground and as wide as three London buses. Since it went online late ...

Still in use today, Bazalgette’s sewer system eradicated cholera in London. Since his time, however, London’s population has grown from 2 million people to more than 9 million, and the city has paved ...