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Water Supply, Rivers and Streams, Drainage,
and. Sewerage.
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Rivers and Streams.
The Brent forms the northern boundary of the
district, and here it receives the effluents from the
Wembley Sewage Works and Ealing Northern Sewage
Works.
In the middle of the year complaints were received
regarding the polluted condition of the River Brent.
As a result of a report from the Medical Officer of Health,
representations were made to the County Council.
The County Council thereupon served a Notice upon,
the Wembley Urban District Council calling upon them
to stop the pollution within a period of three months.
Later in the year the District Council made application,
under Section 13 of the Middlesex County Council
Act, 1898, for an extension of time within which to
comply with the statutory notice, and stated that everything
possible was being done to hasten the carrying
out of the permanent works, and that the arrangements
then in hand were such that a definite commencement
should be made after December.
There can be no doubt of the urgent necessity of
some steps being taken to deal with the gross pollution
which takes place from the sewage effluent coming from
the Wembley Sewage Works, which are quite incapable
in their present condition of producing a satisfactory
effluent. The times may be difficult, but the pollution
has been going on for so long a period, and the discomfort
to the inhabitants in Ealing is so great that immediate
steps are necessary.