Look at this monster project, that will relieve the pollution that London is spewing into the Thames River! (NOT their drinking water source* like our water clean-up project was.) Did this project take 40 years of citizen angst and pushback to come to fruition? NO! The initial study began in 2001! 2001 people! Amazingly, from our frame of reference in Los Osos, their project started construction in 2016 and will take 7 to 8 years to complete. The cost is £4.2 billion in 2012 prices.
The informative videos off the link below are fascinating. What is it about sewer projects that brings out the most lovely musical accompaniments to their videos? Our sewer video musical score was lovely too!
I suggest that if you don't have time to watch all of the videos, set the option to "Autoplay next video"on the last video off the link - if you expand the videos (option on the bottom) to 5 years ago, I'm not so sure there is music as I found the sound on the really old ones to not operate. Listen to the music while you are clearing out your "In box" or something. Be sure to listen to the end on at least one of them to hear the adorable seagull squawk which moves across your speaker, left to right.
https://vimeo.com/tideway
(This one is my first favorite: https://vimeo.com/176721510, and this one is my second favorite: https://vimeo.com/174194088)
(Don't you love the British spelling of tons? Tonnes! Much more fun, but confusing to know how to pronounce.)
* The Thames River IS a drinking water source, but upstream from London.
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