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tion, and in view of the rapid increase of population,
new arrangements have been made and
sanctioned by the Local Government Board. I
give a description of these arrangements supplied
me by the Surveyor.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS.
The sewerage system of the District is
divided into two, viz.:—the high level and the
low level, the high level taking the drainage
of practically the portion of the District West of
the Hertford Road, and the low level the East
of the Hertford Road, including all on the North
side of the Turkey Street Brook.
The sewage from the high level is discharged
onto the Sewage Farm by gravitation into a
Receiving Chamber near the boundary of the
Edmonton and Enfield Districts, at the nearest
point on the Farm to the Hertford Road. The
sewage then either passes through the tanks
formed in the ground in which septic action
takes place, and then distributed on to the land,
or on to the land direct.
This sewage is dealt with mostly on the
land West of the main line of the Great Eastern
Railway, the effluent after passing through the
land passes into the East London intercepting
ditch. But there are two iron pipes—15-inch
and 12-inch diameter respectively; these pass
over the East London intercepting ditch, and
under the Great Eastern Railway, and discharge
the sewage by an open carrier on to the filter