Damen Versatility Delivers River Skimmers

摘要

London's Thames Water put two specially designed and built £4m Skimmer boats into service last month which will collect surface litter along the River Thames from its estuary to as far upstream as Kew in West London.rnClearwater I and Clearwater II, have been specially designed for Thames Water and built at Hardinxveld Giessendam in the Netherlands by Damen Shipyards. Their role is to collect litter from the river surface, which is swept into the water from sewage outfalls during heavy rainfall.rnLondon has a combined sewerage system, built by the Victorians to handle sewage but only a limited amount of rainfall. Due to its limited capacity, the sewers were designed to overflow into the River Thames during periods of heavy rainfall. The skimmer boats will screen out the litter left from these sewer discharges.