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7th December, 1922, the Council accepted the tender, amounting to £29,405, of
W. Pattinson and Sons, Ltd., for the building work involved in the enlargement
of the station. The Council on 24th December, 1923, accepted the tender of the
Lilleshall Co., Ltd., amounting to £3,118, for the supply of two 30-inch centrifugal
pumps, etc. Quarters will be provided for certain of the staff, and houses adjoining
the station have been acquired for the purpose. The total estimated cost of the
enlargement is £73,000.
Southwestern
storm relief
sewer.
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.
The length of sewer from ESra-road to Nine Elms is 2⅜ 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. For the construction of the smaller portion between Effra-road and
Clapham-road, 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. The time specified in the contract for the completion of the
work was nine months, and up to the end of December, 1923, work to the value
of about £46,450 had been completed.
The Council on 1st March, 1923, accepted the tender, amounting to
£210,939, of the Unit Construction Company, Limited, for the construction of the
sewer from Clapham-road to the Thames. Work upon this section was begun in
March, 1923, and up to the end of December, 1923, the value of finished work was
approximately £18,500.
Storm relief
sewers in
Lewisham
and
Woolwich.
The scheme for the relief of floodings provided for the construction of storm
relief sewers in Lewisham and Woolwich to relieve the area drained by the southern
high-level sewer No. 2, including the whole or part of Penge, Beckenham, Catford,
Lee, Eltham, Kidbrooke, Greenwich and Woolwich. The latter sewer is about
10 miles long, and intercepts the flows of several important sewers. Since 1919,
when the scheme was submitted, extensive building operations have taken place
in the area, including the Council's operations at Bellingham and Downham (see
p. 135) and those of the Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council at Eltham.
Large areas in these districts are still undeveloped and it is probable that further
building will take place in the near future. The works proposed comprise two
sewers, namely, the Lewisham branch sewer and the Eltham sewer. The former
will run from Bell-green, Lower Sydenham, to a junction with the southern highlevel
sewer No. 2 near Court Hill-road, Lewisham, and a branch sewer will be
constructed from Catford station. The total length will be about 3 miles. The
new Eltham sewer will run from the junction of the Council's existing Eltham
sewer and the local sewer in Eltham-road, near Eltham-green, to the southern
high-level sewer No. 2 at Charlton, near the junction of the latter with the Charlton
storm relief sewer, a distance of approximately 1½ miles. The works will be put
in hand immediately for the provision of additional employment and they have been
approved for the purpose of State aid by the Unemployment Grants Committee.
The estimated cost of the sewers, including expenditure not provided for in the
contracts, amounts to £299,500 for the Lewisham branch sewer and to £256,000
for the Eltham sewer.
Shad Thames
pumping
station.
Shad Thames pumping station was opened in 1909 to relieve the low-lying
areas in Southwark, Bermondsey and Deptford, which previously were almost