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2. The Court Road, Court Yard, Nos. 1 and 2 sewers ar
now under course of construction and are so far advanced that
several houses once drained into cesspools have now been connected
to them. The Contractors have experienced great
difficulty in the digging in tunnels rendered necessary by the
depth of the sewers, due to the nature of the soil which is of a
hard shelly clay, necessitating the use of sledge hammer and
iron wedges to excavate it. The strata through which the
Court Road Sewer is laid varies considerably the greater portion
being through the above hard shelly clay, other portions being
through green sand and pit sand respectively.
3. The sewers generally throughout the Parish have been
cleansed and flushed regularly by means of Automatic syphon
flushing tanks and by the flushing van.
4. The various sewer ventilators have been kept in working
order, and the gas furnace for an up draught in the ventilator at
the head of the sewer in High Street kept constantly alight. No
smells arising from manhole or ventilator covers have been perceptable
from the Board's Sewers, nor have any complaints been
made.
5. Plans and sections have been submitted for new sewers
in Lannoy Road, New Eltham, an 1 Meadowcourt Road, Eltham
Road, which have both been approved by the Board and the
London County Council.
6. The Sewer in Meadnwcourt Road consisting of 620 feet of
12 inch stoneware pipes embedded in 6 inches thick cement
concrete, has been constructed by the workmen of the Cator