Grimsbury Water Treatment Works
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Grimsbury Water Treatment Works
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 27 Apr 2010
Part of Thames Water's treatment site. The stainless steel cylinder in the foreground is a tipping bucket rain gauge providing real time rainfall intensity data via telemetry. It is operated by the Environment Agency, and the data is also used by the Met. Office. The copper cylinder next to it is a check gauge which is read manually every month just to check that the automatic readings tally. I have no idea what the big green tanks do,
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Image Location
Latitude
52.07286
Longitude
-1.333343