Summary
For more than two centuries, the huge pumping station at the highest point of the West's biggest canal has pulled water from deep underground to top up the waterway.
But now the visitor facilities at the Crofton Pumping Station in Wiltshire have had to be closed because the water supply has been contaminated. As well as providing the water for the Kennet and Avon canal, the pumping station also supplies the kitchens, shop and toilets at the visitor attraction near Marlborough, as well as two cottages on the site. But pollutants in the borehole have become contaminated, probably from pollutants running off nearby fields. And although the pump is still providing water for the canal itself, the rest of the site had to be closed off to visitors, who normally flock to see the pumping station, which includes the country's oldest working beam engine, which dates from 1807 and is still used regularly to bring water up for the canal.See the full content of this document
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Pollution Halts Pumps After Centuries
A spokesman for the Kennet and Avon canal trust said: ...
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