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Stain Hill Reservoirs

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Use has changed from pre-treatment water storage to first-stage run-off settling of suspended solids from the water filter beds at the adjacent works. This unused water flows in pipes to
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with embankments occupy 0.175 square kilometres (43 acres). They are a pair which sit high between others; Kempton Nature Reserve;
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The pair of wood and grass-lined reservoirs. The Thames and adjoining trees can be traced across the foreground.
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The lakes narrowly exceed the embankments in size and have significant populations of moulting and wintering
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Fifteen large Victorian houses with gardens stood on the site, including Brook House, which were demolished
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in late winter. Dry concrete upper banks support nationally-scarce "tower mustard" (
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for further settlement from which pipes discharge it to a lower reach of the
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Ordnance Survey Map of Surrey VI.14, Revised: 1894, Published: 1897
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These storage lakes were built by the 626: 612: 604: 244: 230: 222: 97:and – in use – are managed by 26: 95:Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company 166: 7: 371:Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works 337:1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak 85:London water supply infrastructure 14: 402:Coppermills Water Treatment Works 705: 635: 417:Crossness Sewage Treatment Works 19: 422:Deephams Sewage Treatment Works 397:Beckton Sewage Treatment Works 112:than from which it was taken. 1: 735:Wey and Godalming Navigations 437:Mogden Sewage Treatment Works 432:Hampton Water Treatment Works 90: 985:Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir 543:Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir 442:Walton water treatment works 929:Thorpe Park No 1 Gravel Pit 407:Cricklewood Pumping Station 392:Abbey Mills Pumping Station 297:Metropolitan Board of Works 1061: 844:Claremont Landscape Garden 523:Lee Valley Reservoir Chain 82: 1013: 889:McLaren Technology Centre 832:Lakes, ponds and wetlands 703: 588:William Girling Reservoir 427:Greenwich pumping station 412:Crossness Pumping Station 970:King George VI Reservoir 884:Lakeside Leisure Complex 763:River Bourne, Addlestone 513:King George VI Reservoir 302:Metropolitan Water Board 1045:Thames Water reservoirs 965:Kempton Park Reservoirs 879:Kempton Park Racecourse 508:King George V Reservoir 503:Kempton Park Reservoirs 768:River Bourne, Chertsey 583:West Warwick Reservoir 578:Walthamstow Reservoirs 553:Queen Mother Reservoir 493:High Maynard Reservoir 478:East Warwick Reservoir 376:Thames Water Ring Main 312:William Chadwell Mylne 995:Stain Hill Reservoirs 960:Island Barn Reservoir 955:Bessborough Reservoir 745:Ordinary watercourses 573:Tilehurst Water Tower 558:Stain Hill Reservoirs 533:Low Maynard Reservoir 498:Island Barn Reservoir 468:Bessborough Reservoir 362:Thames Tideway Tunnel 358:Thames Tideway Scheme 45:Stain Hill Reservoirs 1040:Reservoirs in Surrey 990:Queen Mary Reservoir 894:Mercers Country Park 548:Queen Mary Reservoir 473:Chingford Reservoirs 1005:Wraysbury Reservoir 939:Winkworth Arboretum 934:Virginia Water Lake 692:River Tillingbourne 593:Wraysbury Reservoir 568:Sunnyside Reservoir 488:Grimsbury Reservoir 463:Bath Road Reservoir 292:London water supply 287:London sewer system 204: /  157:(salvia verbenaca). 149:verbena officinalis 106:Sunnyside Reservoir 1000:Staines Reservoirs 980:Molesey Reservoirs 914:Papercourt Marshes 730:Wey and Arun Canal 563:Staines Reservoirs 538:Molesey Reservoirs 528:Lockwood Reservoir 353:Abingdon Reservoir 208:51.4113°N 0.3849°W 1027: 1026: 725:Basingstoke Canal 601: 600: 483:Farmoor Reservoir 458:Banbury Reservoir 317:New River Company 272:Joseph Bazalgette 142:cerastium arvense 140:field mouse-ear ( 61:Sunbury-on-Thames 1052: 975:Knight Reservoir 709: 672:Cranleigh Waters 662:River Blackwater 640: 639: 628: 621: 614: 605: 518:Knight Reservoir 277:Edmund Colthurst 246: 239: 232: 223: 219: 218: 216: 215: 214: 213:51.4113; 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London
England
riverside
Sunbury-on-Thames
Molesey
Hampton
Hanworth
London water supply infrastructure
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company
Thames Water
Sunnyside Reservoir
river Thames
waterfowl
shoveler
gadwall
arabis glabra
cerastium arvense
verbena officinalis
wild clary
London Wildfowl
51°24′41″N 0°23′06″W / 51.4113°N 0.3849°W / 51.4113; -0.3849
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Thames Water
John Backhouse
Joseph Bazalgette

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