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§7.—DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
Plans of Drainage.—The London County Council in July obtained continuation
of by-laws as to depositing plans of drainage under the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, section 22, and the Metropolis Management. Acts Amendment
(By-laws) Act, 1899, and upon the receipt of these by-laws a revised form
for the making of drain plans was drawn up, and towards the end of the year
approved by the Borough Council.
The following are the by-laws requiring persons about to construct,
reconstruct, or alter the pipes, drains, or other means of communicating with
sewers, or the traps and apparatus connected therewith, to deposit with the Sanitary
Authority of the district such plans, sections, and particulars of the proposed
construction, reconstruction, or alteration as may be necessary for the purpose of
ascertaining whether such construction, reconstruction, or alteration is in accordance
with the statutory provisions relative thereto, and with the by-laws made under
section 202 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.
Construction of a drainage system as a whole.
1. (1) Every person who, in the provision of a drainage system as a whole,,
is about to construct the pipes, drains, or other means of communicating with a
sewer, or the traps and apparatus connected therewith, shall deposit in duplicate
with the sanitary authority of the district, at their office, such plans, sections, and
particulars of the proposed construction as may be necessary for the purpose of
enabling such authority to ascertain whether such construction is in accordance
with the statutory provisions relative thereto, and with the by-laws made under
section 202 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.
(2) He shall cause such duplicate plans and sections to be clearly and
indelibly made on a durable material to a scale (except in the case of block plans) of
not less than one inch to every sixteen feet, and shall, amongst other things, show
thereon every floor of any building in connection with which such pipes or drains
are to be used, and the position, form, levels and arrangement of the several parts
of such building, including the roof thereof, and the size and position of every
drain, manhole, gully, soil pipe, waste pipe, ventilating pipe, and rain-water pipe,
and of any drain passing under such building, and the position of every bath,
water-closet apparatus, slop-sink, urinal, lavatory basin or apparatus sink (not being
a slop-sink) and trap in connection with the foregoing.
(3) He shall also show thereon the positions of all windows and other
openings into the building, and the height and position of all chimneys belonging
to the building within a distance of twenty feet from the open end of a soil pipe or
ventilating pipe.
(4) He shall at the same time deposit in duplicate with the sanitary authority
of the district, at their office, a detailed description in writing of the intended mode
of constructing, jointing and fixing any such drain, manhole, gully, pipe, bath,
water-closet apparatus, sink, urinal, lavatory basin or apparatus, or trap.
(5) He shall at the same time deposit in duplicate with the sanitary authority
of the district, at their office, a block plan of the premises upon which any such
building is to be situated, or any such work is to be carried out (drawn to a scale
of not less than one inch to every twenty-two feet), and he shall show thereon—