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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW047728 / 781293)
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Water intake from the River Medway.
Large pumps were installed to abstract water which was settled before use.
As there was little effluent cleaning the intake was upstream of the discharge, however when the tide was coming in the incoming water was considerably dirtier than when the fresh water was running down river.
Mill was strategically placed within yards of the "limit of estuarial water". Upstream of this point the were controls on pollution levels; here there were, in the 1920s, few if any. Maidstone Sewage treatment works were built of the opposite bank of the river '
