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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Barney Davis

London’s Super Sewer gets underground flower garden

Thames Water has opened an underground ‘loo garden’ to celebrate the opening of London’s £4.5billion Super Sewer that stretches for 25km beneath Acton and Beckton.

An oasis of trees, flowers and hanging moss stretch along a section of the 50m deep tunnel to represent the Thames Tideway Tunnel’s main objective – to clean the river and allow nature to thrive.

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