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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water.
See Annual Report, 1930.
Previous reports have referred to the unsatisfactory condition
of the Manor Farm Estate, which was without a piped water supply
and was not sewered. The South Essex Waterworks Company
has now agreed to lay a 4 in. water main, under a guarantee by the
Council of 15 per cent, per annum of the cost involved. Credit
against the guarantee will be given for revenue derived from the
domestic supplies.
Water was analysed at a new house owing to the suggestion
that the illness of a number of the inmates of a house was due to an
impure supply. The analysis proved that the water was satisfactory
in all respects. Samples were taken of well water of
premises, to support the refusal of a habitat ion certificate under the
Dagcnham Urban (Water) Order, 1929. The results of the
analysis confirmed the opinion previously held, that the water was
not wholesome.
Drainage and Sewerage.
See reports of 1927 and 1928.
The Beam Valley sewer was completed during the year. This
is laid along the valley of the Beam River from the New Road to
Harveys Lane, Rush Green, and permits of possible development
of over 700 acres of land in the district. A branch extension of
this, the Eastbrook End sewer, drains the land adjoining Dagenhani
Road. The Ford sewer, draining the southern industrial area
south of the Ripple Road, was completed during the year.
Sewage Works.
The following summary of the proposed extensions of the new
sewage works has been kindly supplied by T. P. Francis, Esq..
A.M.I.C.E., F.S.I., Engineer and Surveyor to the Dagenham U.D.C.
The present works constructed in 1924, were originally intended
for a flow of about one million gallons per day. Simple sedimentation
alone does not reduce the effluent to the standard required by
the Port of London Authority, namely, .3 parts per million c.
albuminoid ammonia.
The industrial area is localised on the Thames side and a
separate trade waste sewer of capacity of 6i m.g.p.d. was constructed
to serve this area. This trade waste is to be kept separati
from the domestic sewage, but arrangements are made to proviw
for intermixture if desired.