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various main sewers on the way. Branch sewers will be constructed to connect
the new sewer with the middle level sewer in Ladbroke-grove, and with the Woodlane
sewer at Wormwood Scrubs. A connection will also be made with the new
pumping station at Hammersmith. Altogether the construction of about miles
of sewer is involved. The section between the Thames and Notting Hill, to which
reference is made in the annual report for 1924, is in progress of construction.
Tenders for the work in the remaining section between Notting Hill and Kilburn
and Hammersmith were invited and the tender of Messrs. Kinnear, Modie and Company
amounting to £208,094 9s. for a brick sewer, with the proviso that if so required
by the Council any parts of the sewer will be constructed in ironwork, has been
accepted. Work was commenced on 18th May, 1925, and is in progress.
Beverley
Brook.
The negotiations, for the most part abortive, with authorities outside London for
contributions towards the cost of a relief scheme to deal with the overflowing of
Beverley-brook are referred to in the Annual Report for 1924 (vol. III., p. 129).
Negotiations, however, with the Barnes Urban District Council have been brought
to a conclusion and the arrangement has been ratified in the London County Council
General Powers) Act, 1924. The principal item is the construction of a culvert,
not less than 8 feet in diameter, to draw off storm water from the brook at a point
near Priest's-bridge, Upper Richmond-road, and to discharge it into the Thames
by the most direct route. The approximate estimate of the cost is £39,500, towards
which the District Council will contribute one-fifth or £8.000, whichever is less.
The tender of Topham, Jones and Railton, Limited, amounting to £38,047 0s. 7d.
has been accepted. Work was begun on 17th September, 1925, and by the end of
the vear about one-fifth of the contract had been completed.
Sewer in
Streathamhill
and
Brixton-hill.
The Annual Report for 1923 (vol. III., p. 129) describes the negotiations with
the Lambeth and Wandsworth Borough Councils for the construction by the Council
of a new 4-foot sewer in Streatham-hill and Brixton-hill at the joint expense of the
borough councils in the proportion of two-thirds to Wandsworth and one-third to
Lambeth. After completion the new sewer will be vested in the Council. The
proposed works will leave the present local sewer in Water-lane as a connecting
link between two of the Council's sewers and it will therefore be taken over by the
Council as a main sewer. The present local sewer in Streatham-hill and Brixtonhill
will continue to be maintained by the borough councils. The estimated cost
of the new sewer, including expenditure not provided for in the contract, amounts
to £57,500 and the work has been included in the list of works approved by the
Unemployment Grants Committee for the purpose of State aid. The work is in
progress.
Out-county
drainage.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1925, provides for the
drainage into the London Main drainage system of sewage from the Urban Districts
of Ley ton and Walthamstow. The arrangements embodied in the Act are described
in the Annual Report for 1924 (vol. III., pp. 140-1).
In accordance with the provisions of section 60 of the Act, the Hackney Metropolitan
Borough Council is entitled to require that the sewers from Leyton and/or
Walthamstow shall be constructed of such size as the Borough Council may require
in order to permit of the discharge of sewage from Hackney, the Borough Council
paying the extra cost involved. It has been arranged that each of the sewers shall
be constructed of a diameter of 4 feet.
Arising out of the works recently undertaken for the improvement of the river
Graveney, it was discovered that certain properties in Mitcham were being drained
into the London system in addition to those provided for in the agreement, dated
7th March, 1907, with the Croydon Rural District Council under which the Council
continues to receive the drainage from an area of about six acres transferred from
London to Mitcham in 1904, upon payment of an annual sum of £10. An arrangement
has been made with the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board (which succeeded