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2. DRANAGE, SEWERAGE AND PUBLIC CLEANSING.
Mr. R.W. Edwards, C.Eng.M.I.C.E. ,M.I.Mun. E. ,A.M.B.I.M.,
Engineer and Surveyor , has kindly supplied the following information -
(a) Drainage and Sewerages:
The soil drainage from the greater part of the District gravitates
to the main disposal works at Luxborough which was improved in 1938, was
extended after the war and recently has been further improved with the
addition of final effluent and storm water treatment lagoons. A scheme
for a further extension has now been submitted to the Ministry consisting
of more filters and humus tanks.
A smaller part of th- District drains to the Millers Lane
Sewage Disposal Works from whence the Council has now decided to lay a
trunk sewer to take the flow to the Luxborough Lane Works, thereby
eliminating the need for a second Disposal Works at Millers Lane.
The completion of these improvements is expected to result in
a continued high standard of purity in the effluent to be discharged to
the Riving Roding.
As regards sewerage, the Council is faced not only with the
increasing foul flows from the new development, but also with some ageing
and unsatisfactory sewers which contribute to the flooding difficulties
referred to below. Generally, there is a separate system of drainage in
the District except in the older parts where combined sewers still exist.
These combined sewers have caused flooding at various points in the
District and work has started on the laying of new surface water sewers
to remove part of the flow from the combined sewers in South Loughton
and Buckhurst Hill and thus from the Sewage Treatment Works. Schemes
costing a total of £250,000 have been completed but there is still more
work to be done.
A small area of Buckhurst Hill drains into the sewers of the
London Borough of Redbridge at Woodford, thence via Chingford and to the
East Middlesex Scheme. Part of Clugwell Row drains to the London Boroughs
of Redbridge and Barking.
There are 5 outlying pumping stations lifting the flow from low
lying areas up to the main gravity sewers.
(b) Public Cleansing:
Domestic refuse is being collected once weekly throughout the
District by the Council's vehicles and labour. A fleet of 7 compressing
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