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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nicholas Cecil

Thames clean-up under way as London’s £4.5bn super sewer opens with filthy spills already being stopped

The clean-up of the Thames is under way with London’s new super sewer already stopping hundreds of thousands of tonnes of filthy sewage from spewing into it.

The first valves at four of a total of 21 sites, which operate like giant gates, along the seven metre-wide tunnel have opened.

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