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DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The Engineer and Surveyor has kindly furnished details of
work carricd out, as under :—
A section of 80 yards of open ditch on the District Boundary
in the rear of Arlington Close was piped in 12" concrete tubes
and 66 yards of existing 9" surface water sewer was relaid in 12"
concrete tubes.
Forty yards of 18" concrete tubes were laid in Dulverton Road
from Frensham Road to the Wyncham stream to relieve flooding
in the area.
A section of 50 yards of open ditch from Chislehurst High
Street to the private allotments north of the Church of the
Annunciation was piped in 24" concrete tubes.
The outfall of the surface water drainage from the L.C.C.
Estate at Mottingham into a ditch in Marvels Wood was
reconstructed.
One hundred and forty-four yards of 12" concrete surface
water sewer was laid across Willow Grove and into the Chislehurst
Golf Course to the public sewer to relieve the flooding of properties
in Willow Grove.
The 6" soil and 9" surface water sewer were relaid for a
length of six yards between Chilham Road and Castlecombe Road
in Mottingham. These lengths of war damaged sewers caused a
local and minor subsidence.
Relaying of 185 yards of 12" concrete surface water sewer
between Priestlands Park to Longlands Road to relieve flooding,
now in hand, will be completed before 31st March. 1954.
Laying of 85 yards of 12" surface water sewer in Cray Road
to improve drainage now in hand and will be completed before
31st March, 1954.
The following lengths of new sewers were adopted under
Section 17 of the Public Health Act. 1936. on the L.C.C. Estate.
St. Paul's Cray
Soil Sewer. 513 yards, 9" diameter.
Surface Water Sewers. 283 yards of 24" diameter.
86 yards of 18" diameter.
251 yards of 15" diameter.
153 yards of 12" diameter.
410 yards of 9" diameter.
317 yards of 7" diameter.
CESSPOOLS.
One new building with cesspool drainage was erected during
1953.