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.—continued.
Table of Sewers draining Eastern part of Clapton Park, with size, gradients, and depths, &c.—continued.
Name of Sewer.
Area drained.
Course of Sewer.
Size and Material.
Gradient.
Average depth.
REMARKS.
Overbury Street(2)
Between Rush-more Road and Redwald Road.
12in. pipe.
1 in 200.
Basements to all of the houses in this road, but a few only at lower end are ever flooded.
Glyn Road.(1)
Between Millfields Road and Elder-field Road
15in pipe.
The 15in. pipes are nearly level.
Impossible to raise the upper end of sewer owing to the depth of basements.
Ditto(2)
From Elderfield Road, southwards
12in. and 9in. pipe
1 in 200.
In heavy rainfall all the basements between Millfields Road and Elderfield Road are flooded.
Redwald Road
12in. pipe.
varying gradients.
This sewer turns down Pedro Street, and near its Junction with Pedro Street the sewer is almost level, and the basements at this point are flooded in time of heavy rain. As Redwald Road rises somewhat rapidly from Pedro Street, the upper section of the street is not affected by floods
Maclaren Street,
12in. pipe.
1 in 410.
In times of storm the houses here suffer considerably, the majority having basements. In some houses the basement floor is only about 2 feet above the invert of the sewer in front In these, of course, the house drains are very flat
