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SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
The system of sewerage in the former Barnet Urban District Council area is partly
separate and partly combined. Arkley and Totteridge rural areas are unsewered. Treatment
and disposal are partly at Greater London Council (East Middlesex) Main Drainage
Works, Deephams, Edmonton and partly as West Hertfordshire Main Drainage Works,
Rickmansworth, Herts.
Friern Barnet, apart from isolated cases, is entirely sewered. Only a small area
exists where there is combined drainage sewerage system. Treatment and disposal are
at Edmonton.
In the Finchley area there is a separate sewerage system and the whole district
is sewered. Treatment and disposal are at Greater London Council (East Middlesex)
Works, Deephams, Edmonton.
In the East Barnet area there is a separate sewerage system except for the older
development in Monken Hadley where it is partly combined. The whole of the district is
sewered. Treatment and disposal are at Greater London Council (East Middlesex) Works,
Deephams, Edmonton.
In the Hendon area there is a separate sewerage system except for small areas of
old development which are partly combined; these are being eliminated as housing redevelopment
projects progress. A scheme has been implemented by the Council in the
Hendon Wood Lane area to eliminate cesspool drainage and these sewer works were
nearing completion at the end of the year. Treatment and disposal are at Greater London
Council (West Middlesex) Works, Mogden.
In the more rural parts of the Northern area there are some properties which drain
to cesspools which are emptied eight times a year by the Council free of charge.
In general, surface water is handled by the discharge of surface water sewers to
natural watercourses.
REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
Refuse is collected by direct labour in various types of specially designed vehicles.
The number of collection rounds is 45.
Disposal is effected by transfer loading stations at Summers Lane, Finchley, N.12.,
and at Hendon on the North Circular Road. All disposal is the responsibility of the Greater
London Council.
Special collections of old furniture etc., are made on a rechargeable basis.
Refrigerators are collected free of charge.
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