Waterworks River

[1][2] The river is an artificial channel, cut for the Stratford Waterworks (later purchased by the East London Waterworks Company) in 1743, from the Old River Lee channel (above Old Ford Lock), to supply a reservoir at Saynes Mill, Stratford.

The channel is lined for large stretches with concrete slabs, though sections through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park have been landscaped to a more natural setting.

Steles (Waterworks) by artist Keith Wilson was the first artwork completed in the Olympic Park.

[3] It consists of thirty-five brightly coloured stele-like sculptures rising from the river.

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