{"id":32399,"date":"2023-03-28T04:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T04:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/28\/inside-britains-biggest-sewer-under-londons-river-thames\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T04:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T04:12:56","slug":"inside-britains-biggest-sewer-under-londons-river-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=32399","title":{"rendered":"Inside Britain&#8217;s biggest sewer under London&#8217;s River Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For decades London\u2019s Victorian-era sewers have discharged raw sewage into the River Thames after heavy rain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But that could be about to change, thanks to a vast tunnel that\u2019s been built underneath the river. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Seven metres wide, 25km long and costing nearly \u00a35bn it\u2019s designed to divert sewage to a treatment plant in east London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Our environment correspondent Jonah Fisher was given a rare opportunity to ride a bike along the tunnel before it fills up with sewage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-65091803?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] For decades London\u2019s Victorian-era sewers have discharged raw sewage into the River Thames after heavy rain. But that could be about to change, thanks to a vast tunnel that\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}