West Middlesex Waterworks Company
- West Middlesex Waterworks Company
The West Middlesex Waterworks Company was a utility company supplying water to parts of west London in England. The company was established in 1806 with works at Hammersmith and became part of the publicly-owned Metropolitan Water Board in 1903.
Origins
The West Middlesex Waterworks Company was founded in 1806 to supply water to the Marylebone and Paddington areas of London. In 1808 the company installed cast iron pipes to supply water from its intakes at Hammersmith. [ [http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/westmiddlesex_waterworks_a2.html UCLA Department of Epidemiology "West Middlesex Waterworks history"] ]
Infrastructure
The water company established a 3.5 million gallon reservoir at Campden Hill near Notting Hill. In 1825 the company built a new reservoir at Barrow Hill next to Primrose Hill in North London. In the 1850s the quality of drinking water in London was of public concern. John Snow examined the state of waters in 1849 and noted that the West Middlesex was less subject to cholera because its intakes were upstream and it had large reservoirs. [ [http://matrix.msu.edu/~johnsnow/MCC1-PMCC-51MT.pdf John Snow "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" (Pamphlet) 1849, 1850] ] The Metropolis Water Act 1852 was enacted in order to "make provision for securing the supply to the Metropolis of pure and wholesome water. Under the Act, it became unlawful for any water company to extract water for domestic use from the tidal reaches of the Thames after 31 August 1855, and from 31 December 1855 all such water was required to be "effectually filtered". ["An Act to make better Provision respecting the Supply of Water to the Metropolis", (15 & 16 Vict. C.84)] The Company closed the Hammersmith site and new pumping works were established above Molesey Lock at Hampton. The Hampton facility was completed in 1855 and was shared with the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company and the Grand Junction Waterworks Company.
ee also
*London water supply infrastructure
References
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