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LEGISLATION DURING 1909.
Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act, 1909.
This Act has received the Royal Assent, and the following Clause and
Schedule directly concern the Port of London Sanitary Authority:—
29. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Corporation may
by means of the sewerage works authorised by this Act, and by means of
their existing sewerage works or any works constructed in lieu thereof or in
substitution therefor, discharge sewage into the sea or into the estuary of the
River Thames, and any bye-law made or to be made under the Sea
Fisheries Regulations Acts, 1888 to 1894, shall not apply to the Corporation,
if and so long as the conditions set out in this section or substituted therefor
by the Local Government Board in accordance with this section are
complied with.
(2) Provided as follows:—
(a) Subject to the provision next hereinafter contained, the sewage
shall be so treated that the effluent, when examined in accordance
with the regulations contained in the first schedule to this Act,
shall comply with the standards of purity prescribed by those
regulations;
(b) At any time when, owing to heavy rain, sewage shall enter the
sewers of the Corporation at a rate exceeding three times the
average daily rate at which sewage shall enter such sewers during
dry weather, the sewage in excess of the quantity which
would enter the sewers at that rate may be passed into the
existing eastern and western valley tanks of the Corporation, and
after filling, the said tanks may then overflow therefrom into the
sea or the estuary of the River Thames through the existing
sewage works or storm overflow pipes of the Corporation, shown
upon the deposited plans, or any works constructed in substitution
therefor;
(c) The sewage remaining in the said tanks shall be discharged
through the said sewerage works or storm water overflow pipes,
or works constructed in substitution therefor, within the first
four hours of the ebb tide only.
(3) Provided also that the Corporation may at any time discharge sewage
into the sea or the estuary of the River Thames by means of such works and
subject to such terms and conditions as may upon the application of the