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HAGGERSTON DISTRICT.
(Section V.)
In accordance with the intimation mentioned in last year's report, I reported
upon certain sewers in the above district as follows :
Proposed Scheme for Re-Sewering the Acton District.
Town Hall, Old Street, E.C ,
May, 1897.
Report to Works Committee.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Necessity
for ReSewering
The constant complaints of the inhabitants, and various reports form the Medical
Officer and Sanitary Inspectors as to the unsatisfactory state of the sewers in this
district, having been referred to in the Surveyor's Annual Reports for some time past, and
having received instructions from this Committee to bring up without further delay a
scheme for the re-sewering of this district, I now have the pleasure to submit the
following for your consideration:—
District.
The District proposed to be dealt with is that east of Queen's Road to Brougham
Road, and north of the Regent's Canal as far as Shrubland Road.
The chief defect in the existing sewers is the insufficient depth at which they are
laid, but which depth was, at the time of their construction, the most that could be
obtained, as the Queen's Road sewer, belonging to the County Council, into which they
discharge, was at that time also very shallow. The deepening of this main intercepting
sewer about 12 years ago has afforded means of considerably improving the depth of the
tributary sewers.
Present
Sewers.
The present sewers are of brick of various sizes and sections, and for the most part
unsuitable for the required service of the district.
The natural fall of the ground is away from Queen's Road, and the sewers falling in
the opposite direction it was necessary to keep the gradients small, so as to got a sufficient
covering at the summit.
The Broke Road sewer, which is the worst in this respect, has a gradient of about 1
in 2,840, being practically an elongated cesspool, and at no time is it found capable of
clearing itself.
The same remarks apply to tho sewers in that portion of Pownall Road, east of
Ipswich Road, Norwich Road, and Brougham Road between Norwich Road and
the Broadway.
The sewers in Brownlow Road, Brougham Road, Suffolk Road, Ipswich Road, and
Marlborough Road (north of Broke Road), and Regent's Row (east of No. 33) are at insufficient
depths and gradients, the depth (7 ft.) at Regent's Row being insufficient to
drain two basements at No. 33 and 34, and it is now proposed to make the depth of the
now sewer 10ft. 0 in. opposite these premises, so as to be sufficiently deep to efficiently
drain the basements, which are at a level of 7 ft. 6 in. below the carriage-way.
The sewers in Shrubland Road, Marlborough Road (south of Broke Road), Pownall
Road (west of Ipswich Road), and Regent's Row (west of No. 33) are in good condition, and
at a sufficient depth for the drainage of the lowest floors of the adjoining houses, and
though their gradients are capable of improvement their condition is hardly such as to
require their re-construction at present, it is therefore now proposed only to construct