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The boilers in the eastern boiler house at the outfall which were installed
about 33 years ago showed signs of wearing out and it was decided to obtain tenders
for new boilers of the water tube pattern. The estimated cost including installation
is £14,000. The Council on 23rd November, 1922, accepted the tender, amounting
to £485 of M. Greenwood and Son (Burnley), Ltd., for painting works.
Southern
Outfall.
After the opening in 1916 of the new engine house at the southern outfall,
it became possible to lay off fro overhaul the main beam-engines and pumps. The
work is proceeding continuously. The expenditure authorised during 1922 amounted
to £2,200 for work to be executed by direct employment of labour. The approach
roads to the outfall have been repaired at an estimated cost of £750.
Sludge
vessels.
The Council has six vessels for conveying sludge from the outfalls to the Black
Deep deposit area. The vessels are old, having been launched between 1887 and
1895. The oldest, the s.s. Bazalgette, was repaired and new machinery was installed
at a total cost of about £55,000. Extensive repairs have been carried out to the
hull of the s.s. Barking and, in due course, the vessel will be equipped with new
machinery. Owing to the conditions then prevailing in the shipbuilding industry
the repair of these old vessels appeared to be the most economical course. The
method of dealing with the other vessels has been carefully reconsidered and it is
not proposed to re-condition any of them in a similar way. Vessels of larger size
thould be more economical in working and tenders were invited for the construction
of a new vessel of 1,500 tons carrying capacity as compared with 1,000 tons of the
present vessels. The tender of William Beardmore and Company, Ltd., amounting
to £49,000, was accepted on 6th December, 1922. The s.s. Barking, Belvedere,
Barrow, Bazalqette, Binnie and Burns were overhauled during the year at a total
cost of £4,940.
Outfall and
intercepting
sewers
A proposal for utilising the top of the northern outfall sewer embankment as a
thoroughfare between Old Ford and Barking was put forward by the Poplar
Metropolitan Borough Council. The embankment is not suitable for vehicular
traffic, but that portion which lies in West Ham has been laid out as a promenade
and fenced by the Corporation. Westward of Stratford High-street no such use is
made of the embankment, nor is it practicable to construct a thoroughfare between
Stratford High-street and Old Ford in view of the obstacle offered by the main line
of the Great Eastern Railway, which is on the same level as the top of the embankment.
It would, however, be possible to shorten the route between those places
by making use of the embankment between Old Ford and Marsh Gate-lane, and the
borough council was informed that, subject to its entering into an agreement for the
protection of the Council's interests, the Council would give permission for the
formation of a footway between these points.
Permission has been given to the Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council
for the land underneath the Wandsworth aqueduct which carries the Clapham to
Putney extension of the southern high level sewer No. 1 over the low-lying ground
adjacent to the River Wandle at Earlsfield to be used in connection with Southfields
Park.
Main sewers,
etc.