and we are building this new sewer. here we are at the victoria intersection point. which is this connection tunnel here. this is where, eventually, the sewage will flow in? come rushing through here, it will figure gravity out and it will head off east in the direction we have been going. at the moment, the sewage and water, that is going straight into the river? when it spills, it goes into the river, yes. this will stop that and, i suppose, clean up the river? absolutely. 25 metres above us is the trains and then the river is on top of that. another 20 odd metres above that, yes. 0k. train rumbles. there you are, we can hear another one. quite clearly a train. 0k, it looks like it is getting dark up here.
at the moment flows into the river and divert it to the east of the city where it can be processed properly. i m andy mitchell, i m the chief executive of tideway, and we are building this new sewer. here we are at the victoria intersection point. which is this connection tunnel here. this is where, eventually, the sewage will flow in? come rushing through here, it will figure gravity out and it will head off east in the direction we have been going. at the moment, the sewage and water, that is going straight into the river? when it spills, it goes into the river, yes. this will stop that and, i suppose, clean up the river? absolutely. 25 metres above us is the trains and then the river is on top of that.
intersection point. we are showing one of the 34 sewage overflow pipes that are being diverted tojoin the tunnel rather than flowing into the thames. this will clean up the river quite significantly? absolutely. the tunnel can hold enough sewage to fill 600 olympic sized swimming pools, but in the future that still might not be enough, with climate change expected to bring more heavy rain. the point here is that the solution for london going forward is to do something better with the rainwater than simply throw it in the sewers in the first place, and that is what is going to make the difference going forward. not far upstream, what we throw down the loo is actually changing the course of the river. so this is what we refer to as a wet wipe reef. a mass of wet wipes and sanitary products nowjut out into the river at several points.
at the moment flows into the river and divert it to the east of the city where it can be processed properly. i m andy mitchell, i m the chief executive of tideway, and we are building this new sewer. here we are at the victoria intersection point. which is this connection tunnel here. this is where, eventually, the sewage will flow in? come rushing through here, it will figure gravity out and it will head off east in the direction we have been going. at the moment, the sewage and water, that is going straight into the river? when it spills, it goes into the river, yes. this will stop that and, i suppose, clean up the river? absolutely. 25 metres above us is the trains and then the river is on top of that. another 20 odd metres above that, yes.
and the idea behind it is, well, that it will collect the sewage and storm water that at the moment goes into the river, and take it downhill to east london where it can be processed properly. here we are at the victoria intersection point. we are shown one of the 34 sewage overflow pipes that are being diverted tojoin the tunnel rather than flowing into the thames. this will clean up the river quite significantly? absolutely. the tunnel can hold enough sewage to fill 600 olympic sized swimming pools, but in the future that still might not be enough, with climate change expected to bring more heavy rain. the point here is that the solution for london going forward is to do something better with the rainwater than simply throw it in the sewers in the first place, and that is what is going to make the difference going forward. not far upstream, what we throw down