RESUME FILM THE SEWER KING

DISUSUN OLEH : MUHAMMAD FARID (165060107111013)

MATA KULIAH : TEKNIK LINGKUNGAN
DOSEN : INDRADI WIJATMIKO
FAKULTAS TEKNIK JURUSAN TEKNIK SIPIL
UNIVERSITAS BRAWIJAYA
2016

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 The Sewer King

Category : All History

Series Title : Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Episode :4
Duration : 50 minutes
Product Code : 23430
Broadcast Year : 2003

Synopsis

In the hot summer of 1858, a window was opened in the Houses of Parliament and
Britains great government
suddenly ground to a halt. Disraeli and other leading MPs fled from their chambers,
overwhelmed by the fearsome stench of decaying sewage. Fleeing the Great Stink for
the country, MPs realised that they had to deal with the horrors and filth of Londons
sanitation that had been literally building up on their doorstep for centuries.

Despite Londons rapid expansion, little had changed since the pissing alleys of Tudor
times. The poor were worst affected as sewage seeped through the floors of their homes
or ran down the walls. Some even scrounged a hopeless living from sewage: the
desperate toshers and mudlarks as they were known who sieved through refuse
searching for bits of old tin or oyster shells.

Worst of all, although no one yet knew how or why, killer diseases like cholera swept
through the city in a series of
epidemics, killing more than 30,000 by the mid 19th Century in London alone. Utterly
at a loss, the medical profession added to the problem by supporting the idea that
disease spreads though smell. This prompted the reformer, Edwin Chadwick, to call for
cesspools to be drained away from houses and into the Thames. Unwittingly, he
poisoned the citys drinking water and sealed the fate of thousands.

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Slowly clues to the cause of cholera were being pieced together in a small surgery in
Soho. John Snow was the first to crack the causes of cholera but nobody believed him.
It was to take two more devastating epidemics before the medical establishment was
prepared even to test his theory.This scientific detective story entwines with an epic tale
of Victorian construction. As the grotesque smell from the Thames brought London to
crisis point, the level-headed Sewer King Joseph Bazalgette proposed an impossibly
ambitious scheme: 318 million bricks would link over 1000 miles of street sewers with
82 miles of sewerage super-highway.

His vision required extraordinary and novel engineering solutions to set the bricks into
watertight tunnels and create vast steam pumping engines, installed in gothic cathedrals
of engineering, designed to raise the sewage up to surface levels before it could run
under gravity into the sea. London had to be redesigned to accommodate the vast scale
of his plan. In 1865, with the first phase of the sewers completed, Bazalgette celebrated
with the Prince of Wales in barge trip down the Thames as Londoners cheered.

Their success was short lived for cholera was to strike a further deadly blow. On 27
June, 1866 a labourer and his
wife contracted the disease and soon died. Investigators found their sewage had infected
the east London Water
Company and unleashed an epidemic that would kill thousands more. After an
embarrassing cover up it was found that the Water Company was at fault and not
Bazalgettes magnificent system.

This was the last time cholera ever swept though London, but more importantly, this
final epidemic provided the proof the medical establishment needed to accept John
Snows theory.With cholera now conquered and a sewage system fit for a modern
metropolis, Bazalgette was deemed to have saved more lives than any other Victorian
official.

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Review

For an engineer, the sewer king movie is quite interesting. This movie is very good
especially from the moral message delivered. To undertake major alterations requires
hard work and sacrifice as well as Joseph Bazalgatte in drainage and John Snow in his
epidemiological investigation. The ideas they raised were initially much opposed, but
because of their hard work and perseveranceness made their sacrifices fruitful. Not only
successfully repair the city's waterways and eliminate cholera diseases, thanks to the
services they bring London into a modern city. The outline of this film is very light to
watch so easy to understand. The concept of the background story in the 1980s, the
character of a strong character, as well as good sound quality successfully make the
audience of this film follow soluble in the film.

The main problem that occured in this film is about clean water supply. Clean water is
water used for everyday purposes and will be drinking water after cooking first. As the
limit, clean water is water that meets the requirements for the drinking water supply
system. The requirements in question are requirements in terms of water quality that
includes physical, chemical, biological and radiological quality, so that when consumed
does not cause side effects. (Ketentuan Umum Permenkes No.
416/Menkes/PER/IX/1990 Dalam Modul Gambaran Umum Penyediaan dan Pengolahan
Air Minum Edisi Maret 2003 hal. 3 dari 41)

This film shows us the good drainage system. To distribute drinking water to consumers
with quantity, quality and sufficient pressure requires good piping systems, reservoirs,
pumps and other equipment. The method of water distribution depends on the
topography of the water source and the consumer's position. According to Howard S
Peavy et.al (1985, Chapter 6 pp. 324-326) the drainage system used is as follows;
A. The Gravity Way
Gravity drainage is used when the water source elevation varies considerably with
service elevation, so the required pressure can be maintained. This method is
considered quite economical, because it only takes advantage of the height of the
location.
B. The Pump Way
In this way the pump is used to increase the pressure required to distribute water
from the distribution reservoir to the consumer. This system is used if the elevation
between the water source or the treatment plant and service area can not provide
sufficient pressure.

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C. Combined Ways
In a combined way, reservoirs are used to maintain the required pressure during
high periods and in emergencies, for example when a fire occurs, or the absence of
energy. During periods of low usage, residual water is pumped and stored in a
distribution reservoir. Since the distribution reservoir is used as a water reserve
during periods of high usage or peak usage, the pump can operate at the average
discharge capacity.

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References

http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleID=23430

Cadbury, Deborah (26 August 2003). Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Fourth
Estate (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-00-716304-5.

Cadbury, Deborah (5 July 2004). Seven Wonders of the Industrial

World. HarperPerennial (paperback). ISBN 978-0-00-716305-2.

(Ketentuan Umum Permenkes No. 416/Menkes/PER/IX/1990 Dalam Modul Gambaran

Umum Penyediaan dan Pengolahan Air Minum Edisi Maret 2003 hal. 3 dari 41)

Howard S Peavy et.al (1985, Chapter 6 pp. 324-326)