Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1897
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Table: Table of Sewers draining Eastern part of Clapton Park, with size, gradients, and depths, &c.
Table of Sewers draining Eastern part of Clapton Park, with size, gradients, and depths, &c.
Name of Sewer.
Area drained.
Course of Sewer.
Size and Material.
Gradient.
Average depth.
REMARKS.
Marsh Sewer.
Clapton Park, portion of Upper Clapton and Tottenham
Parale1 with the Hackney Cut.
4ft. 9in by 3ft.9in. brick.
About 1 in 3,000.
7ft. Gin.
Constructed in 1875. Since that date the drainage received has gradually increased ; the consequence being that now the dry weather flow is about 18 inches in depth; in storms it becomes overcharged, and the whole of the sewers in the immediate neighbourhood become blocked up, and numerous basements are flooded.
Blinco Road.
Daubeney Road Ashenden Road, Durrington Road, Roding Road, part of Glyn Road, Chelmer Road, Coopersale Road.
3ft. by 2ft.brick.
1 in 610
No basements in Blinco Road; the house drains have fair gradients.
RushmoreRoad.
3ft.6in.by 2ft. 4in. brick.
1 in 473
Between Overbury Street and the main sewer there are numerous basements in this Road, which are flooded in times of heavy flood.
MillfieldsRoad.
3ft. 6in by 2ft.4in. brick.
At its lower end about 1 in 250.
In addition to taking the sewage of a portion of the District of Clapton Park, this sewer also receives a large volume from the new streets laid out in recent years at the western end of Mill-fields Road. In times of storm this sewer is over charged. With regard to the three above-mentioned sewers, of late years it has been found impracticable to clean out their lower ends during the day time, because of the large quantity of sewage held back owing to the great depth of flow in the main sewer, and the work has had to be done at night.
