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of Abbey-mills pumping station. The exceptional tide of 6th-7th January,
1928, flowed over the bank and damaged it to a small extent. An examination of
the bank showed, however, that it required strengthening. Owing to its nature
the work was entrusted to C. J. Wills and Sons, Limited, contractors for the
development of certain of the Council's housing estates. The total cost of the
work amounted to £4,500.
The overhaul of the gas-driven plant has been proceeding continuously since
the year 1926 by means of directly employed labour. It was decided to complete
the work by contract, and the tender of the London Graving Dock Company,
Limited, amounting to £3,014 15s. 0d., was accepted for the purpose.
Owing to the continual state of dampness of the superintendent's house at
Deptford pumping station, caused by percolation and vapour from the adjacent
cooling ponds, the Council decided to erect new quarters for the superintendent
in another part of the station grounds at a cost of approximately £1,460, and to
utilise the old quarters for offices, store and other purposes. No. 5 beam engine has
been overhauled at a cost of £670.
Deptford
pumping
station.
The roof of the engine-house at the Western pumping station was constructed
between the years 1872 and 1876 of ornamental copper tiles laid on boarding. The
tiles had become distorted and leakage ensued. It was decided to replace the tiles
on the central portion of the roof by copper sheeting laid on the existing boarding,
and the tender, amounting to £404 0s. 2d., submitted by Messrs. Frank Dunne and
Company, was accepted for the work. The roofs over the filth screens and over
the boiler-house were also defective, and repairs thereto have been carried out at
a cost of £440.
Western
pumping
station.
Two cast-iron centrifugal pumps installed in 1923 were found to be corroded
by the chemical action of the sewage, and it was decided to instal bronze pumps
in their place. The tender of H. Watson and Sons, Limited, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to
supply the bronze pumps for £923 was accepted.
North Woolwich
pumping
station.
Apparatus to quicken the starting of the pumps at Heathwall and Lots-road
storm-water pumping stations has been installed at a cost of £225 and £294
respectively.
Heathwall
and Lotsroad
pumping
stations.
The steel pipes used for the hydraulic operation of a penstock in Manchesterroad,
Poplar, from the Isle of Dogs pumping station were found to have been corroded
by acids in the soil and copper piping has been substituted at a cost of £376.
Isle of Dogs
pumping
station.
The flooding of Shad Thames pumping station by the high tide on 6th to 7th
January, 1928, necessitated opening out and cleaning the engines, which was undertaken
at a cost of £271. The engines were overhauled during the year at an estimated
cost of £258, and their lubrication improved at an estimated cost of £225.
Shad Thames
pumping
station.
In order to facilitate pedestrian traffic between areas on each side of the northern
outfall sewer embankment, there being no means of crossing the embankment between
High-street South and Boundary-road, East Ham, a distance of about 1,440 yards,
the Council assented to the formation by the East Ham Corporation of a footpath,
with steps over the embankment, between Lonsdale-avenue on the north side and
Fabian-street on the south.
Outfall,
intercepting
and main
sewers.
From time to time subsidences have occurred in roadways on the sites of shafts
sunk in connection with the construction of the southern outfall sewer No. 2
and the southern high-level sewer No. 2, due to the consolidation of the material used
for filling in the excavations. A further subsidence occurred during the year in
Mycenæ-road, Greenwich, and it has been made good at a cost of £247.
During the night of 27th to 28th July, 1928, a length of the Eastern Counties
sewer which was being reconstructed collapsed following heavy rain which fell in the
night. The down local line of the London and North Eastern Railway, under which
the sewer ran, subsided, and adjoining lines were affected. Railway traffic was
resumed in the afternoon of 28th July, 1928. Flooding of property in the