ABSTRACT
The Lower Thames Valley Joint Sewerage Board had received forty such proposals in the late 1870s. The intercity river would then become essentially an extended dock with a constant water level; reclaimed bankside land would then be available for providing a large sewage treatment plant. Struthers has conceived the plan in the context of a pesistent engineering dream in Scottish history – a Forth-to-Clyde deep water canal, but he points out that the canalization-sewage scheme could be undertaken independently of this. In the autumn of 1889, in the course of a conversation with one of the oldest and most experienced members of the Glasgow Municipal Council, the author remarked that probably the problem of the Glasgow Sewage Question would find a solution in the construction of the Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, then under proposition.
