The Great Thames Barrage

By Thomas Walter Barber

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338077981

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Thomas Walter Barber

The Great Thames Barrage

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4066338077981

Table of Contents

What is complained of.

Remedies Proposed.

Port of London Bill, 1903.

Dockisation the True Remedy.

The Tidal Thames.

Tidal Wave.

The Thames Estuary.

Upland Water.

Effect of Dockisation on the River.

Water Supply of London.

Rail and Road Communication at Gravesend.

National and Military Aspect of the Scheme.

The Depletion of the Thames Basin.

Minor Advantages.

Works and Construction.

Financial.

The Port of London Bill, 1903.

Dredging the River.

Objections against Dockisation.

What is complained of.

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And, first, to briefly catalogue the complaints from all sources. They are as follows:—(a) Insufficient depth of water in the river for the increasing size and tonnage of steamships. (b) Tide-waiting at Gravesend and at the dock entrances, inward and outward. (c) Excessive dues. (d) Vexatious restrictions owing to conflicting and overlapping authorities in the river. (e) Excessive cost of barging, pilotage, and labour in loading and discharging. (f) Loss of time at the port. (g) Dangerous navigation, due to tides, bends in the river, narrow channel, fogs, and the crowded state of the river. That these complaints are well founded is generally admitted.

Remedies Proposed.

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The Royal Commission on the Port of London, the Board of Trade, as representing the Government, the Thames Conservancy, the dock companies and others recommend the deepening of the river by dredging as a remedy for (a), and as a partial remedy for (b) and (f). As to (c) no remedy seems to be proposed by either, but rather an increase of dues, or in lieu thereof a charge upon the rates of London through the London County Council.

Partly to amend (d) it