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Honeypot Lane, Great Stanmore.—Most of the Parish
of Great Stanmore drains to the sewage works at Honeypot Lane,
being treated here by sedimentation and broad irrigation, the
effluent discharging into the Edgware Brook.
Little Stanmore Sewage Works.—These works, which
occupy a site of 24½ acres near Honeypot Lane, treat the sewage
from Little Stanmore, the lower part of Great Stanmore, and
part of Harrow Weald. The treatment consists of the passage of
the sewage through sedimentation tanks, percolating filters and
humus tanks, the effluent being discharged into the Kenton Brook.
Sludge is pumped on to high ground and is ploughed in.
All the sewage works will be abandoned when the West Middlesex
Branch Scheme is completed by, it is anticipated, the end of
the current year.
Rivers and Streams.
The river Pinn rises in the Royston Park Estate near the
northern boundary of the district. Running in a southerly
direction to High Street, Pinner, during which part of it is partly
open and partly culverted, it changes its direction, running westerly
to cross the district boundary between Cuckoo Hill and Eastcote
Road. The Yeading Brook rises in two sources, the one near
the Recreation Ground, Pinner Road, the other near Moat Farm.
These two streams, which are partly culverted, join at Hooking
Green Bridge, from where the Brook runs in a south-westerly
direction to the Hendon Rural District Sewage Works at Pinner,
this portion of its length being open. Rising in Harrow Weald,
the Wealdstone Brook runs in an easterly direction through Wealdstone,
crossing out of the district at the Kenton Road near Kenton
Grange farm. The Kenton Brook, rising in Kingsbury, passes
near the Little Stanmore Sewage Farm to flow in a southerly
direction out of the district, later joining the Wealdstone Brook.
The Edgware Brook, which rises in two sources south of the
Stanmore village, flows in a southerly direction to the Great Stanmore
Sewage Works, then easterly towards Edgware, later to run
into the Silk Stream.
The water courses, which are in many places culverted, receive
the flow from the surface water sewers. Owing to the admission
to these channels of yard washings, etc., nuisances arise where
the watercourses are exposed.
Closet Accommodation.
There are no houses in the Harrow-on-the-Hill area without
closet accommodation, only one in Wealdstone, and a few in the
Hendon Rural District.
Public Cleansing.
Refuse Collection.
In Harrow-on-the-Hill and Wealdstone domestic dry refuse
was collected by direct labour, the plant in the case of the former