5^ Mr. William Whitaker on sutne 



Epsom. — Waterworks. 



Information got by Mr. J. Lncas from the Engineer. 



About 150 feet above Ordnance Datum. 



Three wells: — 1. In the engine-house: shaft 50 feet; then 

 two bore-holes to 84 feet. 2. To the south-east : shaft 40 feet; 

 then three bore-holes to 84 feet. 3. In the garden, further 

 south-east : shaft 51 feet ; the rest bored. (Section of this well 

 given below). The three are connected by a pipe 45 feet below 

 the surface. 



Yield 14,000 gallons an hour; in summer, 12,000. The 

 engineer says that the springs are equal to a supply of 25,000. 

 A bore-hole close by, to the north-east, used to overflow before 

 the pumping began. 



Mould 2 



Gravel 3 



(Red clay 7^ 



Mottled clay 6 



White fire-earth 2f 



Green sand 10 



Oyster-shells 1^ 



Slate-coloiored sand 10 



• Grey sand 18 



Coarse sand and flints If 



Chalk 1231 



[Thanet Beds, 

 29i ft.*l 



186 

 In the engine-house well a thin bed of grey clay comes in 

 below the gravel, otherwise the same section is given by all the 

 wells. As the dij) is north-westward, the same horizons occur 

 rather lower in 2 than in 3, and in 1 than 2. In 1 the depth to 

 the Chalk is 66 feet. 



Harci'i/'s, late Chandler's, Brewery. 



Information got by Mr. J. Lucas. 



Three wells, one giving the section below. 

 Shaft 35 or 40 feet, then bored to 90 feet. 

 Water 3 feet fi'om the surface (Feb., 1873) ; falls to 30 feet in 

 dry seasons. 



Gravel ... 15 or 16 



Clay 35 or 40 



Sand. 



Chalk. 



A bed of oyster-shells was passed through, but its depth was 

 not recorded. 



* This seems too great a thickness for the Thanet Beds. 



