... to treatment works on the right bank of the River Avon a t Strensham. Treated water is then pumped to a reservoir on Bredon Hill, from which it gravitates to a service reservoir a t Meriden, to thenorth-west of Coventry. Although powers to construct the works were obtained in 1939, the outbreak of war...

...A W SHILSTON; K J IVES; W TAYLOR © Thomas Telford and ICE 1954 RIVERS WATER SUPPLY CONCRETE RESERVOIRS SLUDGE STORAGE TREATMENT WORKS JOINTS RIVER SEVERN COVENTRY BREDEN HILL MERIDEN RESERV. STRENSHAM UK 688 DISCUSSION ON THE RIVER SEVERN intake pumps were...