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Following the receipt of this unsatisfactory sample the older style chlorination
plant at the bath was renewed and subsequent samples proved satisfactory.
The total attendance at the public swimming pools during the year was
633,638, an increase of more than 152,000 over last year.
SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
It is the general duty of the local authority to provide for the sewerage of
their district under Part II of the Public Health Act, 1936, certain sections of which
deal with the various provisions relating to sewerage, supplemented by Sections
12 to 23 of the Public Health Act, 1961.
The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act, 1961, and regulations made thereunder,
make further provisions for maintaining or restoring the wholesomeness of
the rivers and other inland or coastal waters of England and Wales in respect,
inter alia, of sewerage and sewage disposal.
Certain other provisions in respect of drains and sewers are provided in the
Middlesex County Council Acts, 1956 and 1961.
The Borough Engineer and Surveyor is responsible for sewers under the highways,
apart from trunk sewers. During the year, further connections of foul water
sewers to the deep main trunk sewers within the Borough have been made. Various
works for the prevention of flooding have been carried out in three areas.
The Health Department undertakes the clearance of sewers on private property
and 1,305 stoppages were cleared.
Repair of drains and private sewers is the responsibility of the users, and
during the year 23 notices were served for the repair of drains and 27 for the
repair of private sewers. By the end of the year 20 of the former had been complied
with, and 22 private sewers had been repaired by the Council in default of
the owners, from whom the cost was recovered.
The function of sewage disposal was vested in the Greater London Council
by Part V of the London Government Act, 1963. Two disposal works are within
the Borough, one at Deephams and another at Ponders End. Large sludge drying
beds handling the sludge from the Deephams works are sited in the North of the
Borough at Enfield Lock. The Ponders End works are scheduled to be taken out
of operation in due course. A full report on sewage disposal is made in the Annual
Report of the Director of the Department of Public Health Engineering of the
Greater London Council.
The Northern Main Foul Sewer (Southgate Area) was completed and will be
taken over by the Greater London Council as a trunk sewer.
For certain of the information in this report I am indebted to the Borough
Engineer and Surveyor.
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