A report on the hydro-geological survey of East Kent to the Joint Committee on East Kent Water Supplies, marked Confidential and Not for Publication. 62pp, including various charts and tables. Bound in strong, printed card boards with black titles on spine. 4to. Boards toned and lightly marked, a little rubbed at edges in places and gently rounded on corners and spine ends. The word 'Archives' has been stamped on the upper panel. The backstrip has been nicely repaired with the application of binder's cloth which is now itself rubbed at tips. An ex university library copy with light library markings, restricted to the front endpapers and a small stamp on the final printed leaf, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Herbert Lapworth (died 1933) was a leading water engineer and geologist, President of the Institution of Water Engineers. He was commissioned in 1928 to conduct a hydro-geological survey of East Kent water supplies to inform the Joint Committee, East Kent Water Supplies', decision-making on future development and housing given the widely expected increase in the local population to serve the then expanding coal industry in the area. This is his report to the Committee, containing sections on The Coal Measures; The Gault; The Chalk; The Flow of Underground Water; Underground Water Levels; Contaminated of Ground Water due to Collieries; Population; Existing Waterworks and Requirements for New Pumping Stations; Rural Valleys and their Water Works; Industrial Valleys and Drainage; Commentary on sites of new towns suggested by others.
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