David Lloyd Owen - There are plenty of historic parallels for Thames’s super-sewer project
- From: Vol 12, Issue 5 (May 2011)
- Category: Analysis
- Region: Europe
- Country: United Kingdom
- Related Companies: Ofwat and Thames Water
Thames Water is well into its “consultation process” regarding where access work for its proposed London sewer overflow system will take place.
The angst over the proposed ‘super-sewer’ sites elegantly sums up the joys of juggling major projects with minority interests. Campaigners are either concerned with nuisance or cost. In some places it is the effect on property prices that matters rather than public health, which shows that some ‘Victorian values’ retain a resonance.
The parallels between this and the original London ...
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