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wife of the chairman of the Main Drainage Committee, on 2nd October, 1924. The
vessel arrived in the Thames on 28th November and after satisfactory completion
of her trials was put into commission on 12th December. The other vessel, the
G. W. Humphreys, was launched on 13th November, 1924, and remains to be
completed. Delivery is expected early in 1925. The greater length of the new
vessels has made it necessary to alter the arrangements for mooring at Erith. The
opportunity was taken to overhaul the existing moorings and buoys. The total
estimated cost of the work was £800. Owing to lamination of some of the plates
trouble developed in one of the boilers of the Bazalgette. The boiler had been put in
only in 1921. The cost of repairs amounted to £361, towards which the makers,
although they were under no liability, contributed £150. The Council's proportion
of the cost of buoying the Black Deep deposit area during 1923 was £214. The
Barrow was overhauled during the vear at a cost of £479.
Outfall,
intercepting
and main
sewers.
The arrangements with the Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council for the
construction of a footway along the top of the northern outfall sewer embankment
between Wick-lane and Marsh Gate-lane were completed during the year, and the
footpath was opened to the public by the Mayor of Poplar on 14th April, 1924..
Repairs, etc., have been carried out during the year to intercepting and main
sewers as follows:—*Marcia-road sewer, £730; Effra branch sewer, £3,210; Lord
Spencer sewer, £180; *Fleet sewer, £8,150; *Regent-street sewer, £775; *Ranelagh
sewer, £13,900; Hackney Brook sewer, £2,400; Pennington-street sewer, £2,600;
Wick-lane sewer, £2,250 ; *Ratchff-highway sewer, £225; Wood-lane sewer, £725
*Northern outfall sewer, bridges, £3,550; Northern low level sewer penstocks,
£350; Savoy-street outlet, £350.
The storm water outlet from the Ratcliff-highway sewer discharges into the
Thames under the property of the Free Trade Wharf Company, Ltd., and
arrangements have been made to construct a new outlet which will pass mainly
under the King Edward VII. Memorial Park at Shadwell. The tender of Scott
and Middleton, Limited, amounting to £2,677 for part of the work, was accepted
on 23rd August, 1924, the remainder having been constructed by the Free Trade
Wharf Co., Ltd., which is responsible for two-thirds of the total cost of the whole.
The laying of the portions of the two new 14-inch pipes necessary to link up
North Woolwich pumping station with the Northern outfall, in place of pipes of the
same dimensions which formed the original North Woolwich rising main, was.
completed by Mr. Howard Farrow. The total cost of the work including the
supplying and laying of the pipes, was £13,288. The rising mains now consist of
one 24-inch and two 14-inch pipes.
Abbey Mills
pumping
station.
Western
pumping
station.
The raising of the river wall of the Channelsea river which flows beside Abbey
Mills pumping station has been put in hand at an estimated cost of £750*
The main beam engines at the Western pumping station were put to work in
1875. The beams have been repaired and strengthened from time to time. Further
defects developed, and repairs have been completed at a cost of £546. The tender
of Mr. J. Barr for repairing and painting the staff quarters was accepted on 28th
March, 1924, and the work completed at a cost of £202 9s. 9d.
North
Woolwich
pumping
station.
One of the two settling ponds at North Woolwich pumping station has been
repaired at a cost of about £450. Electric light for the station and electric power
for working the filth screens and for raising water from the silt pits have been
installed at a estimated cost of £359. This amount provides also for the overhaul
of the filth screens.
Lots-road
and King's
Scholars'
Pond
pumping
stations.
The tender of Arthur H. Inns, Ltd., amounting to £388 and £124 for painting
works at Lots-road and King's Scholars' pumping stations respectively, was accepted
on 11th December, 1924. State aid has been promised towards the cost of internal
painting which was accelerated in order to provide employment.
* Expedited to afford employment, and ranks for State assistance.