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SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
Works Department; London County Council (General Powers)
Bill, 1914-15.
Works Department.
The Borough Surveyor having reported to the Works Committee
that complaints had been made with respect to sewers at Millwall, the
Works Committee reported to the Council that they had approved
insertion of manholes in Janet Street, Malabar Street and Havannah
Street sewers to facilitate cleansing, especially in view of the fact that the
London County Council sewer is too shallow to allow of proper selfcleansing
gradients in these sewers. They also approved construction
of a manhole on Stainsby Road sewer, and erection of a ventilating
column, it having been found impossible recently to remain in the sewer
to relieve a blockage owing to accumulation of sewer gas. They also
reported it is intended to erect a similar ventilating shaft at the junction
of Teviot Street and Yatton Street.
The Borough Surveyor reported to the Works Committee that in
Robin Hood Lane an ancient single ring brick sewer, with a diameter
varying from 18 in. to 2 ft. 6 in. was in a very defective condition. Part
of the sewer was out of use and had been demolished and filled in.
The remaining portion of the sewer was too large for the then present
requirements and the Borough Surveyor proposed to replace this portion,
from No. 18. Robin Hood Lane to the junction of the sewer with the
London County Council sewer, with 9-in. stoneware pipes with a selfcleansing
gradient, and provision of proper access.
The Works Committee directed the Borough Surveyor to carry out
the work.
London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1914-15.
See page (235).
The London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1915, proposes
to empower the London County Council, in certain circumstances, to
compel owners to alter the existing system of drainage of buildings, and
to fill in and discontinue the use of the basements thereof. The Wandsworth
Borough Council convened a Conference of Borough Councils on
the subject, and expressed the view that these powers, if granted, should*
be exercised by the Borough Councils, and not by the London County
Council.
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