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WATER SUPPLY
The London Borough is served by four statutory supply authorities, as
undermentioned:—
Supply Authority Square Estimated
Miles Population.
Croydon Corporation (Central and
northern part of the Borough) 17.0 221,500
Metropolitan Water Board (Spring
Park Estate and New Addington) 2.8 36,600
East Surrey Water Company
(Sanderstead, Selsdon, Kenley,
Purley and Coulsdon East) 15.5 56,400
Sutton District Water Company
(Woodcote and Coulsdon West) 1.9 13,800
37.2 328,300
The waters in supply are of good organic quality and moderately hard
in character. They have no plumbo-solvent characteristics and the fluoride
content averages about one-sixth of a part per million. All houses are supplied
from mains and there are no standpipes for this purpose. In the
Croydon Undertaking's area, 720 samples of raw water and 1,349 samples
of water going into supply were tested bacteriologically. For results of
consumer samples of water sent by the Health Department to the Public
Health Laboratory Service see Appendix page 129.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL
I am indebted to the Borough Engineer, Mr. H.M. Collins, for the
following information:—
"Construction of the new Sewage Treatment Works at Beddington has
continued throughout the year and progress is in keeping with the planned
programme. It is anticipated that the new works will be brought into
operation over a period of 2-3 months from October 1969 onwards, after
which time it will be possible to close down the old works.