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WATER SUPPLY.
The water supply for the district is provided
by the Lee Valley Water Company, except for that part
of the South Ward which is supplied from the mains of
the Metropolitan Water Board.
All the houses in Friern Barnet have a piped internal
supply.
This supply has been adequate and the reports on
samples shewed that it was of a high standard of bacterial
purity and suitable for public supply purposes.
The water is hard and has no plumbo-solvent action.
AIR POLLUTION.
The appointment of an assistant to undertake
work primarily in connection with smoke control has enabled
the local problem of air pollution by smoke to be tackled
with greater energy. Our programme for establishing
smoke control areas to include eventually the whole of
the Friern Barnet district, which had seemed likely to
take eighteen years to complete, was revised and accelerated
to a new target of six years.
Smoke Control Area No. 2 came into operation on the
1st. October 1962 and brought the number of dwellings in
the district subject to smoke control to 1036.
All the preliminary work in connection with Smoke
Control Areas No. 3 and No. 4 was completed during the year,
the Orders were made by the Council and later approved without
modification by the Minister of Housing and Local Government.
These Orders will come into force on the 1st. October 1963
and will bring a further 1429 dwellings under smoke control.
The daily measurement of smoke and sulphur dioxide
in the air was continued and the results forwarded to the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research as part
of the national survey of atmospheric pollution. A
measuring station is maintained at the Town Hall and it
is proposed to establish two more stations to sample
the air in other parts of the district.
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