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£4,000. Tenders were also received for the erection of the proposed pumping station
at Hammersmith, and that submitted by Leslie and Company, Ltd., and amounting
to £56,290 was accepted on 1st March, 1922. Preliminary work had been begun
on 6th December, 1921, and up to the end of 1922 work to the value of approximately
£9,000 was executed.
The work if enlarging the Isle of Dogs pumping station and Abbey Mills
pumping station in order to prevent floodings in the low-lying areas in Poplar and
the Isle of Dogs was before the Council in 1911 and 1913 respectively. On 7th April,
1914, the Council accepted the tender, amounting to £6,584, of the Premier Gas
Engine Company, for two gas engines for the Isle of Dogs pumping station and
work was commenced thereon. Owing to the war the work was suspended and it
was not until October, 1922, that the matter was resuscitated as a work suitable
for the provision of employment. The Company's offer to complete the work upon
the basis of a new contract price of £9,829, of which £545 would be provisional,
was accepted on 24th November, 1922. On 7th December, 1922, the Council
accepted the tender amounting to £29,405 of W. Pattinson and Sons, Ltd., for the
enlargement of the Isle of Dogs pumping station. The total estimated cost of the
•enlargement of the station is £73,000.
Abbey Mills
pumping
station enlargement.
The enlargement of Abbey Mills pumping station involves alterations in the
Worthington engine house at the station, the installation of new pumping plant
there, and the provision of additional boilers in one of the boiler houses and of
supplementary plant. The total estimated cost is £95,000. Two boilers have been
supplied by Clayton, Son and Company, Limited, and fitted at a cost of £8,872,
and the tender amounting to £19,750, of Gwynne's Engineering Compamy, Ltd.,
for the supply of machinery was accepted on 20th December, 1922. The time
occupied in the execution of the enlargement will be about one year.
The south-western storm relief sewer has been designed to assist in the drainage
of areas in Clapham, Streatham, Brixton, West Norwood and Dulwich. The scheme
anticipated the construction in the first place of a sewer which would tap the Effra
sewer at Effra-road, Brixton, and the Balham sewer, the southern high-level sewer
and the southern high-level sewer extension near Clapham-road station, and would
also be connected with certain local sewers. The new sewer will discharge into the
Thames at Nine Elms. The estimated cost including incidental expenses is £315,000.
If required at a later date the sewer can be extended southward to relieve the Effra
Branch sewer at West Norwood.
Southwestern
storm, relief
sewer.
The length of sewer from Effra-road to Nme Elms is 2 3/8 miles, and in order to
expedite the work for the purpose of affording additional employment the work was
made the subject of two contracts of unequal value, approximately 25 per cent. and
75 per cent. Tenders were invited in the first instance for the construction of the
smaller portion between Effra-road and Clapham-road, and the Council on 23rd
November, 1922, accepted the tender, amounting to £52,454, of Mitchell Brothers,
Sons and Company, Limited, and work was begun in December, 1922. Tenders for
the construction of the sewer from Clapham-road to the river Thames have been
invited.
The annual contribution by the West Ham Corporation in respect of the drainage
of the borough into the Council's system was fixed by an arbitrator in 1904 at 2£d.
in the £ on the assessable value of the borough (excluding Government property).
This contribution fell far below the cost of the service rendered and the Council
therefore obtained authority in its General Powers Acts, 1921, for the Minister of
Health, after considering representations by the Council and others, to increase
such payments or to prescribe the principle upon which such payments are to be
determined. Any such order will remain in force for at least twenty years, and it
is open to the Council or the Corporation to make further representations within
six months after the expiration of any period of twenty years. In accordance with
these provisions the Council, on 20th December, 1921, decided to ask the Minister
Out-county
drainage.