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SECTION III
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
The district is sewered on the separate system. The surface water is
conveyed into the Pymmes and Salmons Brooks. A new surface water main
has been laid from Halstead Road along Montefiore Place to Salmons Brook
near by; Sadler's Millstream culvert has been inverted from Bury Street
bridge to the Roman Catholic Church, Hertford Road. The sewage proper,
together with that of the neighbouring district of Southgate, passes to the
Council's sewage farm of 233 acres, where it is treated by broad irrigation.
Mr. Frank Rackham is the farm bailiff. The culvert over Salmons Brook,
west of Winchester Road, has been repaired. The invert under Pymmes Brook
at Angel Bridge has been reconstructed and a new retaining wall erected at the
end of Cuthbert Road. The sewer up Union Row, whose southern side is in
Tottenham district, was repaired and extended. The drainage of houses in
Gilpin Grove was modernised.
The only crops now grown on the Farm are rye grass and mangolds, as
broad irrigation is gradually being displaced for filters of clinker. Only about
170 out of 233 acres is being used for broad irrigation.
The first filter bed was started working on the 9th June, 1913. In October'
1913, another bed, adjoining Deepham's Farm, was commenced; its dimensions
are 150 feet long by 100 feet wide. The progress with this new filter was
delayed by lack of money and later by non-delivery of the iron sprinklers due
to the war. However, on 20th September, our Engineer announced its
completion, and in November the acid effluent from the Pegamoid factory was
diverted to this bed.
The sewage farm of the Enfield Urban District extends over 109 acres,
and is entirely situate in Edmonton, lying to the north of our own farm. There
are 6 bacteriological filters.
House Refuse Disposal. Edmonton does not possess a destructor.
The tender of Messrs. S. South & Sons for the collection of house refuse, for
the year ending September 30th, 1916, at the price of ,£"1,600, was accepted.
Scavenging. A circular letter, dated May 1915, with a report on
scavenging in urban districts, was received from the Local Government Board
in June. It is based upon reports received from the Councils in the early part
of 1914. The methods of scavenging at present in force coincide largely with
those recommended by the Local Government Board.