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PART III
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OP THE AREA
Water Supply
I am indebted to the Director of Water Examination of the
Metropolitan Water Board for the following report upon water supplied
to the borough during 1956.
"The supply to the Tottenham area has been satisfactory both
in quantity and quality during the year 1956. Details of the
analytical results of the water passing into supply are given on
the attached sheet.
The Borough of Tottenham is supplied from two main sources:-
(a) Water from the New River consisting of a mixture of River
Lee water and well water treated at the Board" s filtration
works at Hornsey and Stoke Newington. A contact
tank for the efficient treatment by chlorine was brought
into operation at Hornsey in July 1954 and a similar
tank will be in operation at Stoke Newington the week
immediately after Easter 1957,
(b) River Thames water stored in the Board s reservoirs and
treated at the Board's filtration works in the Thames
Vailey,
Samples are collected on five days in every week or more often
if required at each stage of the purification process and from the
distribution system. Tests include physical, chemical and microbiological
examination,
All new and repaired mains are chlorinated before being
restored to use and samples of water from them are tested bacteriologically
to ensure that its quality is up to that normally supplied.
The water supplied to this area is not plumbo solvent.