Miscellaneous
Sewerage
The idea to build a sewerage system under Prague’s streets first arose when the city’s Old Town, New Town, Lesser Town (Malá Strana) and Hradčany districts were merged in 1784. In 1893, the English engineer Sir William Heerlein Lindley, who had built modern European sewerage and water systems, designed Prague’s sewerage system using the experience gained from modern sewerage constructions throughout Europe. The plan not only included a proposal for dozens of kilometres of sewers and drains, which are mostly in operation to this day, but also incorporate the construction of a sewage treatment plant in Bubeneč, which was opened on 27th June 1906. For 20 million crowns four basic sewers with drains comprising 300 km were built. The most important point of the entire system is actually an inverted siphon under the Old Town Hall, where three large collecting pipes flow and lead to the treatment plant in Bubeneč via a tunnel under the Vltava River and the Letná district. The treatment plant operated without interruption until 1967, when it was subsequently modernised. Today it is a cultural monument and it houses the Museum of Environmental Technology (Ekotechnické museum).
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3D model of Old Town City Hall
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