It was buried underground in stages from 1823 onwards and incorporated into the sewage system in the late 1800s. The section until the twin tunnels was the last to be buried and is the point where the regents canal runs above.

it was a slog to try and watch.

tartarian remains

Thank you!!!

i love how theres just random people over the world that just explores sewers like its a job lol

Neke, Čech xD Ty jo, taky bych to chtěl zkusit

The fleet dried up, it wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't a sewer. I think calling it a river is a stretch

How come it still rises on Hampstead heath

One of the worst things back in that time was that people were dumping all manner of unpalatable 💩 into the Fleet _despite_ the common knowledge that people were drawing drinking water from it further downstream. No wonder London had such a problem with Colorea outbreaks... 😷

​@@stevegoody3434Still not enough water to create this, anyway whatever comes from the heath goes straight down the high level interceptor kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q71ge5BqsNepc5s.htmlfeature=shared

I've see illustrations from the 18th century showing ships docked right in the mouth of the Fleet, as it empties into the Thames. There was also a nice arched bridge depicted, just like the one in Venice. Incredible.

@@mickeydodds1 WHERE does the fleet first become a sewer?

Yes sewers are a great way to die of methane poisoning

London stocks, in the main.

Thanks

It forks as it runs beneath the Regents canal. When the canal was constructed the Fleet was culverted

Actually, that is civil engineering! Using the structural strength of archs, vaults, and the advantage of oval conduits for fluid conveying capacity and minimizing friction losses!!

Not sure how this is relevant

@@cebruthius YOU MUST BE THE VILLAGE IDIOT IF YOU CAN'T WORK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF !

It’s a CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) when the sewers rise due to heavy rain it’s spills over and goes to a river or in some cases a storm retention tank.

They are Combined Sewer Overflows for when the Fleet is in flood most of it goes into the Thames while some is pumped to a facility and or mega storage tanks to take the pressure of the sewer

That's correct and when the super sewer is up and running from 2025 it will no longer go into the Thames. This weekend it has been discharging into the Thames for a record 40 hours non stop! That's the result of this storm with heavy rain. Blockages such as fatbergs and things that shouldn't be flushed also cause the sewer to overflow too

Probably another tunnel at a lower level used for surge relief, possibly even connected to the Tideway tunnel further down.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qrpooaqpnam3kps.html Here’s another.

I was thinking the same thing.

Rishi Sunaks' shadow cabinet? 💩🇬🇧😉

...Depending on how much extra capacity the Tideway Tunnel will accommodate versus the continually expanding population of Inner London! Putting myself in Basilgettes' shoes and trying to look 200 years into the future, I'm picturing a large percentage of London being covered in tower blocks each at least 150 floors high. That's a *lot* of lavatories... 🚽🚽🚽💩💩💩😳

I doubt it, they are pricing people out of London, large estates demolished like the Heygate in turn of much smaller ones. most of the towers going up are not really residential mostly glass office buildings. The Hs2 project has demolished a lot of the estate around Euston and Regents Park and only very small number of replacement homes have been built. Besides large corporations are moving away from London to other cities around the UK and those jobs go with them so less need to live in or around London. Not all 32 boroughs of London send their sewage to Beckton or Crossness. If you happen to live in Bexley,Bromley and parts of Greenwich this goes to the works in Dartford marshes and some of the boroughs in West London like Hounslow goes to Mogden works where it is being expanded as I write this.

Yes to human waste

What language does polio speak?

Isn't that something played by the Royal Family on most weekends?... 🙃

Isn't it just a sewer for rain water or whatever comes down through the streets?

@@m.st.6657 I think it might be a mix of both, it definitely doesn't just look like rain water though.

Refreshing

I saw a turd and a bunched up ball of toilet paper in one shot, also appears there is toilet paper/rags on the hand rails

​@@m.st.6657no it was incorporated into the sewerage system over a century ago, the southern end only enters the Thames during heavy rainfall otherwise it just goes to other sewers which end up in beckon sewage works.

Nose

Yes.

@@valdigger30HGSA I wonder if there's any potential for heat exchangers to be installed to absorb that heat for other applications?... ♨🔋💡

That's probably a CSO chamber, i think.

overflow chamber

Disused line

@@DJTHORR.. a disused sewer line??

@@drphipshiolidge yes

@@DJTHORR.. cool

leads to the fleet storm relief

Combined

No it's gases released from poo.

...And that's why you *never* try this at home without appropriate knowledge, experience, and a stupidly robust back-up plan. ⚠🤯👍 (I'm going to guess that a natural knack for memorising features and layouts is essential, but also looking out for and keeping an active note of the nearest usable escape route at all times. 👍)

it's a sewer now , used to be the Fleet river but now the fleet sewer

@@zarrow50 ...And why did we turn a river into a sewer? Clearly we British don't give a sh*t... ...Or reading that in another way; Perhaps we *do?* 💩🚇😋