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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33744	A new method of Robert Colepepyr, Gent., for speedy and effectual preservation of the navigation on the River Thames and to repair the water-breach in to Havering and Dagenham levels in Essex ...	Colepepyr, Robert.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5059; ESTC T122737	5,132	6

A New Method of ROBERT COLEPEPYR Gent. For speedy and effectual Preservation of the Navigation on the River THAMES and to Repair the WATER-BREACH in to Havering and Dagenham Levels in Essex This Proponent having many Years spent Thoughts on the Tendancies of Tides Ebbs and Sands for the Benefit of Navigation Humbly proposes To the Right Honourable the BRITISH HOUSE of COMMONS in Parliament Assembled that some New Cutts be made in the Thames Bank as the cheapest and speedyest Way to perform the Works aforesaid which if approved of as the best Method he hopes to be enabled by Your Authority to proceed on the same notwithstanding any Statute to the contrary Gentlemen THE Damages to the said Navigation Your Proponent apprehends are these following First The Water received by the Inundation or Bason is thereby cut off from the upper Part of the same River this makes some abatement in Water-depth there but it must be inconsiderable since taken from so many Miles of Length and the Breadth of Water that flows above the Bason Secondly That Sand from the Bason damnifies Navigation by subsiding in the Thames near the Breach And it is true the Thames first entered this Bason by Failure of a Sluice and in time enlarged that Passage to 100 Yards broad and also to the Thames depth viz. where the Bason's Water falls into that River But as it was impossible the Tides could ever make high Water in the Bason before it was so in the Thames they could not do it till long after that Time before the Breach was much widened because the Bason was always the same to receive Tides but soon after the Innundation the Breach gave far less Passage into the Bason than afterwards the Water made therefore we may conclude that soon after the Inundation the Water remained flowing into the Bason a good part of the time the Thames was Ebbing before those Waters could come to a Par and that the Thames must be the lower before any Water could ebb out of the Bason From the Reasons above a great quantity of Water must remain in the Bason after the next Tide began to flow in the Thames Yet this quantity did abate as the Breach grew wider however may not all be abated therefore the Time that remaining Water ebbs out of the Bason and meets the first part of the next Tide those Waters stop and swell up one against the other and drop Sullage till the Tide prevails and gives them a new Motion For whatever doth cause Loss of Motion in Water gives it a Tendency to drop Sullage and the Sand of this Sullage will subside where it drops and will encrease till want of Room for Tides and Ebbs will suffer it to rise no higher For Storms there can disperse little if any Sand though very useful at the Mouths of our Rivers where Winds have more Power Yet to provide against this Second and much greater Damage to the Thames Navigation the Proponent prays leave to observe as follows to wit that Four Miles of Bank were maintained to keep the Thames from drowning the same Levell therefore while not Imbanked the flowing Water had four Miles to enter this Levell whereon it rose in heighth slowly as the Thames Water did and so abated at Ebb therefore it must then be high Water at the same time in the Thames and on that then un-imbanked Land and all Water would go off from the latter long before Low-Ebb Therefore no Sand could then drop through long Contests between Tides and Ebbs when no Contest was When at Ebb the Water was a Foot deep on the un-imbanked Marsh that small quantity of Water was as long in Ebbing off through its four Miles Passage as the Thames was in abating a Foot in heighth therefore the little Speed the Water made to drown and drain the Land last mentioned bore a very small Proportion with the Running of Tides and Ebbs in the Thames but if a Bank had been made gradually on that four Miles Passage it would as gradually have given more Motion to the Water that flowed on and ebbed off from that Land to bring them to the same Swiftness of running they had in the Thames and since Low-VVater at the same time in the Deep VVater-frett of the Bason and Thames is necessary to prevent Subsidence of Sand in the latter therefore your Proponent would now make four new Cutts in the Thames Bank for that benefit and each of them as wide as the Breach though only cut down as low as Marsh Surface If the same Cutts and the Breach give as much room in proportion to the Bason's Water as the Thames Channel gives to the Water that flows above the Bason then we must have high and low Water in the Thames and deep Water frett of the Bason at the same times and little if any part of an Ebb will be lest in the Bason to meet the next Tide So this Cutting of Banks is an effectual Way to obviate such subsiding of Sand in the Thames for it takes away the Cause thereof The Proponent would not cutt so much Bank if less will serve However these or wider Cutts he hopes appear able to answer his End aforesaid in few Days to preserve the Navigation and also abate Rapture in the main Water-frett that Materials for Reparation may be kept there and Benefits obtainable by cutting of Banks are without Risque of Failure since Water builds no Banks The Proponent would raise Stops of small Wood in the new Cutts a Foot high and when Tides rise to the Marsh Surface the Water will run in through these Stops and when risen a Foot higher it will flow freely in over the same Stops till high Water and much help the Breach to fill the Bason He can also make a strong Wood Pile and place the same about 40 Rods within the Mouth of the Breach to stand in all the deep Water there and the shallower Water between the Wood Pile and Shoars he can fill with sinking Faggots to be made as long as the Wood Pile shall be broad Over the said Wood Pile and Faggots the Water shall flow several Foot more or less every Tide And when it is Ebbed down to the Head of the Wood Pile the Water to the Thames ward will have nothing in it's Way so will run as fast as the Thames Ebbs but the Water to Landwards of the Wood Pile c. will have the same to get through and notwithstanding the Water hath a Thousand Millions of small Passages out through and by the Wood Pile and other Stops yet those Stops will make Sullage subside within them every Tide for all Sullage that sinks below the Heads of the Stops must go down to the Ground and subside there for want of Water strength to drive it through or to the Stops and the same Sullage will in reasonable Time fill all Water-fretts and raise the same fit for Imbankment as has been done elsewhere by