Amazing Museum in the old sewer

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       Creating a sewer was the greatest creation of man. Sounds, probably, a little pathetic for some kind of hole for draining waste products?

       In fact, the presence of sewage and its quality is a very clear marker of the development of society.

       It is difficult to imagine what a city is without a sewer system. Such stories are often embodied in film and literature: a stinky city, toilet balconies and the plague.

       In medieval cities, for example, sewage was only conditional. Rather, it was just a small segment of the plums, which removed sewage from the house for a few meters. Further, this beauty stank and decomposed on the street among the people.

       The Czech Republic understands this issue, because in Prague there is the coolest museum of sewage ... First things first.

       The first mention of sewage systems in the Czech Republic dates back to 1310, when the first full-fledged drain appeared on Nerudova Street. However, most so-called. sewers ended in the nearest pit.

       In the 17th century, the Clementium sewage system appears. And at the end of the XVIII century, work began on the improvement of systems. It was then issued a decree on the construction of a full-fledged urban sewage system.

       At that time, 20 km of sewer network was designed.

       At the beginning of the 19th century, the construction of 35 exhaust canals began, along which waste from residential buildings was diverted directly into the local Vltava River.

       And so, at the end of the 19th century a real engineering revolution took place. The construction of the sewage starts Sir Lindley. His name is forever imprinted in the history of Prague, Dusseldorf, Pest, Warsaw, Lodz, Samara, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baku and other cities.

       Lindley proposed two revolutionary, but for us obvious solutions. In a city with a population of over a million people, it is impossible to discharge sewage into rivers; the sewage system should have its own sewage treatment plant.

       Past projects did not take into account the constant population growth, but Lindley made calculations taking into account the constant population growth.

       In the event of flooding and heavy rainfall, a decision was made to build a two-tier sewer system.

       The lowest point of the upper system was 2.5m above the Vltava, the same point was the highest at the lower system.

       Thus, all sewage was diverted to the sewage treatment plant, and during floods the power of the lower system was not enough and the wastewater along with the water flowed into the upper system, which drained the water directly into the Vltava without any purification.

      By the construction of sewage and wastewater treatment plants approached with great responsibility, picking up each brick.

       The fruits of this approach are visible even now, because the sewage system built in the 19th century functions to this day, without needing to be repaired.

       Only the plant of sewage treatment plants is now converted into a museum, but even there everything is working, and pumps of the beginning of the 20th century can still perform all the functions.

And if you want to go there, then here are the contacts:

Address: Papírenská 199/6, Praha 6

Telephone: +420 608 330 024