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Soil Sewerage Scheme.—The construction of a new soil sewerage
scheme was commenced on August 14, 1933. This scheme drains
an area of 962 acres to a new outfall sewer. The estimated cost of
the scheme is £50,000. In certain places it has been found
necessary to use Cement Fondu concrete, due to the presence of
certain mineral salts in the subsoil water.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
polluted effluent into the surface water sewers. No complaints were
received during the year.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
With very few exceptions the whole of the district is on the
water carriage system, the houses being drained to the public sewer.
At the end of the year there were seven pail closets and one cesspool
in use.
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
A weekly collection of house refuse is carried out under contract.
The refuse is burnt by the contractor in a dust destructor
erected on his premises.
As the above contract has almost expired, arrangements have
been made for this work to be done by direct labour. An enquiry
was held on August 1, 1933, by the Ministry of Health, and sanction
given for a loan. A Heenan and Froude refuse destructor is in the
course of erection, and trials with various types of dust collection
vehicles have been made.
BURIAL GROUNDS.
Tenders have been accepted for the extension of the London
Road Burial Ground. The tenders amount to £1,564 16s. 11d.