| Date |
Event |
| 1531 |
Statute of Sewers passed, enabling the appointment of permanent Commissioners of Sewers |
| 1626 |
Charles I gives a commission to Cornelius Vermuyden to drain the Hatfield Level |
| 1629 |
Court of Sewers for the Level of Hatfield Chase founded |
| 1696 |
The [Old] ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Waterworks Company established |
| 1725 |
Earliest records of The Sewers Commission of the County of Lincoln, City of Lincoln and County of the said City and part of the County of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ acting for the wapentakes of Manley, Corringham and Aslacoe (the Brigg Court of the Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers) |
| 1783 |
Trent Navigation Company established by Act of Parliament |
| c.1790 |
Zion Hill Water and Marble Works established in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ |
| 1824 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ New Waterworks Company established |
| 1826 |
Trent Waterworks Company established in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½; Thomas Hawksley, Engineer until 1880, designed England's first constant high pressure water supply |
| 1831-1832 |
Nationwide cholera epidemic |
| 1832 |
Poor Law Commission set up |
| 1832 |
The Trent Waterworks Company opened a constant pumped water supply system to taps in streets and yards in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ |
| 1835 |
Municipal Corporations Act |
| 1842 |
Edwin Chadwick's report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Classes |
| 1844 |
Royal Commission on 'Large Towns and Populous Districts' |
| 1845 |
J.R. Martin's report on 'The State of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Other Towns' |
| 1845 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Water Act authorises amalgamation of water companies |
| 1845 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Waterworks Company established |
| 1847 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Borough Sanitary Committee established |
| 1847 |
Nationwide typhus epidemic |
| 1848 |
Nationwide cholera epidemic |
| 1848 |
Public Health Act |
| 1857 |
First modern pumping station built in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Bagthorpe/Basford at Haydn Road, Radford, engineered by Thomas Hawksley, extracting water from sandstone beds |
| 1861 |
Land Drainage Act amended the powers of the Commissioners of Sewers and allowed for elected, as opposed to appointed, Drainage Boards |
| 1862 |
Act of Parliament to Incorporate the Participants of the Level of Hatfield Chase, establishing the Corporation of the Level of Hatfield Chase |
| 1866 |
The Board of Conservators of the Trent Fishery District established following the Salmon Fishery Act (1865) |
| 1869 |
Royal Commission on Water Supplies |
| 1872 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and District Sewerage Act. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Leen Valley Sewerage Board established. Leased 638 acres of land at Stoke Bardolph for a sewage farm |
| 1879 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Improvement Act, giving powers to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Corporation to take over water undertakings |
| 1880 |
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Corporation Waterworks formed from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Waterworks Company, Engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton (Borough Engineer from 1859)
Stoke Bardolph sewage plant became operational (the start of today's modern sewage system) |
| 1884 |
Papplewick Pumping Station opened, designed by Tarbotton |
| 1898 |
Burton Joyce Pumping Station opened, the first to pump water from boreholes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ |
| 1899 |
Derwent Valley Water Board formed to begin supplying ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Leicester, Sheffield and Derby with water |
| 1906 |
Wilford Suspension Bridge, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ opened |
| 1923 |
Board of Conservators of the Trent Fishery District reconstituted as the Trent Fishery Board, following the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act |
| 1930 |
Land Drainage Act sets up Catchment Boards to have oversight over Main Rivers |
| 1931 |
Trent River Catchment Board established |
| 1936 |
Inauguration of new Sewage Disposal works at Stoke Bardolph, a new pumping station at Sneinton, and new sewers in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ |
| 1940 |
Trent River Catchment Board takes over the powers of the Trent Navigation Company and the Brigg Court of Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers |
| 1941 |
Trent River Catchment Board takes over the powers of the Corporation of the Level of Hatfield Chase |
| 1948 |
River Boards Act. Drainage, fisheries and pollution responsibilities brought together under single authorities |
| 1951 |
Trent River Catchment Board and Trent Fishery Board amalgamate as the Trent River Board. |
| 1963 |
Water Act establishes River Authorities |
| 1965 |
Trent River Board becomes the Trent River Authority |
| 1967 |
Derwent Scheme started (storage reservoir and treatment works at Church Wilne, Derby to supply river water for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½) |
| 1973 |
Water Act establishes new Water Authorities with comprehensive management of the entire water cycle. |
| 1974 |
Severn Trent Water Authority formed, taking over the powers of the Trent River Authority, the City of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Water Department, and the Derwent Valley Water Board |
| 1983 |
Water Act restructures Severn Trent Water Authority to bring it in line with nationalised industries |
| 1989 |
Severn Trent Water formed to take responsibility for water supplies and sewerage
National Rivers Authority established, with responsibility for managing water resources, pollution control, flood control and land drainage |
| 1996 |
National Rivers Authority replaced by the Environment Agency |