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Sewage Farm. Steps were taken immediately to do
away with such a means of watering, and the use of this
watercress bed was finally discontinued.
The following is a schedule of the watercress beds,
together with their source of water supply ;
No. 1. Guy Road, Beddington, the area in actual
growth is 1 acre 17 poles. The beds are supplied only
by river water, which has not received any sewage
effluent at all.
No. 2. 2, London road, Hackbridge, has an area of
15 poles, and the water supply is entirely from springs.
No. 3. Wandle road, Hackbridge, has an area of
3 acres, 37 poles, and is supplied by water coming from
the previous beds, and also more extensively by local
springs.
No. 4. Spencer road, Beddington Corner, has an
area of 1 acre, 3 roods, 20 poles, and is fed by water from
the River Wandle, just below the outfalls of the Croydon
Borough Avenue Carrier, and the Carrier from the
Carshalton Sewage Farm.
No. 5. Beddington Corner, in the Parish of
Mitcham. These beds occupy an area of 3 acres, 2
roods, 23 poles, are also fed in a similar way to the
previous, but the river water and local springs tend to
materially increase the proportion of pure sewage contaminated
water.
No. 6. Situate in Willow Lane, and
No. 7. At Willow Farm, occupy a total area of 6¼
acres, and are fed by the water that has passed through
No. 5, together with water from springs rising on the beds
of themselves.