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SWIMMING POOLS
The Council operates covered swimming pools at Lamorbey, Riverside Erith, and Crook Log
Bexleyheath and open-air pools in Danson Park and Martens Grove. In addition, there are situated
at a small number of schools, pools provided principally by parent/teacher associations. A large
factory in the area has its own open-air pool, and an indoor pool exists at a large residential home.
Apart from the control of water purity by the staff concerned, a number of samples are
taken by Public Health Inspectors for routine Lovibond comparator tests and for bacteriological
examination.
During the year none of the 103 samples submitted to the Public Health Laboratory Service
for bacteriological examination was reported as unsatisfactory and the operators of the swimming
pools in the area are to be congratulated on the efficient manner in which they have carried out
chlorination of the pools.
SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
The previous Annual Report contained a general statement concerning the arrangements for
sewerage and sewage disposal. With the exception of the Thamesmead development the Borough's
sewage is conveyed by trunk sewers to the outfall works of the West Kent Main Sewerage Board at
Dartford. There are a small number of cesspools serving domestic and industrial premises.
I am advised by the Borough Engineer & Surveyor that during the year improvements have
continued to be made to the existing system including the various pumping stations and that all
new premises erected have been connected to the main system.
Work on the large main sewer scheme in the Northern part of Erith and Belvedere and
amounting to some £850,000 in total, has continued and is expected to be completed some time
during the first part of 1972.
NOISE
Nationally the Noise Advisory Council came into being in 1970 and it is worth recording its
aims which were "to keep under review the progress made generally in preventing and abating the
generation of noise, to make recommendations to Ministries with responsibility in this field and to
advise on such matters as they may refer to the Council".
The Noise Advisory Council, unlike other noise committee, is not entirely limited in its
responsibilities to one government department. The Council has a special value in being able to
range over matters for which various government departments are responsible. Advice can be
offered to planners just as much as to designers of aircraft and other equipment. During 1970 this
happened on the local level when advice was sought by the Borough's Planning Officer on the
licensing of the Crayford Stadium for stock car racing. The racing of these "bangers" had been
the cause of a number of complaints. The results of readings taken by a member of the Greater
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