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The valves are placed in a house built over the entrance to the resrvoir.
Th overflow is 465-ft. above sea level, and 87-ft. above Upper Norwood,
the highest part of the borough.
AREA OF SUPPLY.
On the 29th of September, 1904, the Corporation took over that portion
of the Borough previously supplied by the Lambeth Water Company, and
recently by the Metropolitan Water Board, thus making the Corporation the
water authority for the whole of the Borough. The new area is supplied
with water obtained in bulk from the Metropolitan Water Board.
NEW WORKS.
New vvoiks are in progress as follows :—
A low leTel service Reservoir at Russell Hill to hold ten million gallons.
Waddon Pumping Siation.—An Engine and Pumps capable of lifting
130,000 gallons an hour.
Pumping Mains between Surrey Street Works, Waddon Works, and
Russell Hill.
Risers and Streams.
There are few watercourses in the Borough, and only minor
nuisances—very easily remedied—arise in connection with them.
The most interesting of the watercourses is that of one of the
sources of the Wandle and characterised by the flow of the bourne
(the overflow of the underground water of the chalk) from the
Kenley Valley.
Drainage and Sewerage.
The whole of the town is on the water-carriage system. The
sewage is conveyed to and treated at two separate installations—the
Beddington Sewage Works and Irrigation Farm situated just
beyond the western boundary of the town and the Norwood
Sewage Works and Irrigation Farm situated in the middle of the
eastern boundary of the town. The treatment is effected in tanks
followed by filtration through sprinkler beds and then by land
irrigation.
Closet Accommodation.
The closet accommodation consists throughout of water-closets
with the exception of 15 earth closets. In each of the latter
instances there is adequate reason for their existence.
Scavenging.
The use of covered metal ashbins is general throughout the
town. Domestic refuse is removed once weekly. The refuse is
disposd of principally at the Corporation Destructor and at a large
shoot on the Norwood Sewage Farm. Many complaints have in
recent years been received of nuisance arising from this deposit,
and the Corporation are proceeding to provide another destructor to
deal with this section of the refuse.