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It is said, that an application having been made to Mr.
Thirst for a trifling compensation, it was refused.
Formerly these houses were sometimes liable to inundations,
when storms occurred at high water; but in October,
1859, an additional flap was placed by order of Mr. Richman,
at the outlet of the sewer at Ranelagh Cottages, which has
been found to answer the purpose completely, there having
been no overflow from that time, until the erection of the
dam in the Ranelagh sewer.
Park Side, Knightsbridge, Nos.—. Basements flooded,
with water about 9 inches deep.
The overflow here arose from some flushing gates in the
Ranelagh sewer being closed in order to divert some of the
water from that sewer away from the work at Chelsea Bridge.
The injury did not occur, until the storm happened on
Saturday.
The occupier of No.—, Park Side, having subsequently
complained that the water from another inundation on the 2nd
June, and reported at a meeting of the Committee of Works,
did not pass away; a further examination was made, when no
obstruction could be fonnd in the arms of the sewers; but
his house, which drained into the old sewer at the back, was
found to be more insufficiently so, the bottom of the drain
being 4 feet above the level of his basement floor. This
basement was formerly drained into the next house,-,
also his property, which some time since he stopped up, with
the view of preventing any overflow from the sewer. By
thus destroying their drainage, and his basement being lower
than that of the adjoining houses, the water had no chance
of escape; he re-opened the drain, when all passed off
rapidly.
It appears by an answer from the Metropolitan Board of
Works, that these premises must be subject to flooding before