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Surrey Water Company supplies the parishes of Coulsdon
and Sanderstead, while the parish of Addington derives
its supply from the well sunk in this parish by the
Croydon Corporation. With the exception of the water
supplied by the Metropolitan Board, all water is derived
from deep borings in the chalk. The water is of
excellent quality, and in the water supplied by the Sutton
Water Company and the East Surrey Water Company, the
hardness has been greatly reduced by the use of softening
plants. Analyses of all waters in the district are
periodically made, and usually disclose a high degree of
purity.
Sewerage and Drainage.
Nearly the whole of the district is sewered, and the
sewage is either treated at the Council's Sewage Farm
at Mitcham, or at the Croydon Corporation Sewage Farm
at Beddington. A large area in the parishes of
Beddington, Coulsdon, Sanderstead and Woodmansterne
is, at the present time, owing to a dispute with
the Croydon Corporation, unfortunately not included
within the area specified in the Agreement between the
Croydon Corporation and the Rural District Council
relative to the reception of sewage by the former body,
consequently a number of cesspools are in existence, the
periodical emptying of which entails an almost intolerable
burden upon the owners. At the present moment, a
scheme is being prepared to carry the sewage by means of
a tunnel through the hills at Purley and so to reach the
Sewage Farm at Mitcham by way of the Beddington and
Wallington sewers. It is hoped that by the establishment
of this communication the abolition of all cesspools
within this area will be effected,