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The sewer in Hewlett Road having become blocked the Borough
Surveyor reported that when the ground was opened up in places
he found the sewer collapsed, owing to when it was originally constructed
in 1865, it had apparently been put in by tunnelling
between shafts without the tunnels having been properly filled in
and consolidated. The Surveyor reconstructed the sewer.
The Borough Surveyor reported the sewer in British Street,
Poplar, to be defective in places, without proper fall, and not
laid upon concrete. This sewer was reconstructed.
The Council adopted the report of the Borough Surveyor that
it was desirable a new sewer should be constructed in Parnell Road
from Locton Street, to Ruston Street before the paving works
authorised by the Council were proceeded with. The Surveyor's
proposal is to construct about 300 feet of 9-inch pipe sewer. The
Surveyor pointed out there was no sewer in this portion of the
road.
The Borough Surveyor submitted a plan for the reconstruction
of a defective sewer draining Wellington Road. The sewer having
become blocked was, as a matter of emergency, partially reconstructed.
The Surveyor reported that the sewer at present
discharges into Fairfoot Road sewer, but has an insufficient fall,
and to obtain this he proposed to divert it by constructing a new
length of sewer connecting it with Knapp Road sewer. The work
proposed comprises the construction on modern lines of about
815 feet of 15-inch and 630 feet of 12-inch pipe sewer.
Upon the report of the Borough Surveyor, the Committee
recommended that Bridge Road sewer should be extended by
about 90 feet to take the drainage of Messrs. Lamb, Beal and Co. s
premises. The extension to commence at the junction of the new
sewer in Bridge Road with the Dock Company's drain, with a fail
in the reverse direction to the remainder of the Bridge Road sewer.