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SECTION 3.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
24. WATER.
Water is supplied to the area by the South Essex Waterworks
Company, from the Company's wells in the chalk at Ilford, Seven
Kings and Dagenham.
The water is untreated, and is hard in character.
The supply is periodically examined by the Counties' Public
Health Laboratories, and is always found to be of the highest degree
of bacteriological and chemical purity.
With the completion of the Company's scheme to bring water
supplies from the River Stour, the work upon which is proceeding
very rapidly, an increased quantity will be available.
The Council will, of course, be aware that the increased rate
for water supply in the district was in connection with the River
Stour scheme.
The following is a short description of the Stour Supply Scheme,
as supplied to me by the Engineer of the South Essex Waterworks
Company :—
" The Scheme is authorised under the powers contained in the
South Essex Waterworks Act, 1928.
" The source of supply is the River Stour, from which water will
be abstracted at an Intake situated near Langhain Mill, and will
flow by gravity through a 40-in. diameter pipe to the sump of the
Langham Low Lift Pumping Station.