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This site, and all other refuse disposal operations, are now
controlled by the Greater London Council.
Street Cleansing
This work of clearing over 300 miles of roads is carried out
by 21 teams each normally consisting of two sweepers and an
electrical truck operator and 40 street orderlies equipped with
hand barrows. Four suction type sweeper collecting machines
are employed on carriageways, although increases in parked
vehicles makes the use of these machines less effective. A Work
Study has now been completed in the Street Cleansing Section,
and it is hoped that the implementation of this Report will lead
to an improved service throughout the Borough.
Refuse Disposal
The refuse disposal arrangements for this Borough which
became the responsibility of the Greater London Council (Department
of Public Health Engineering) on the 1st April 1965 remains
the same as outlined in last year's report.
Havering refuse is dealt with by the Borough's own collection
vehicles and taken to Little Belhus, Ockendon, a contractor's
tip and to Moor Hall landfill site, Romford Road, Aveley, a G.L.C.
tip. Both of these tips being situated in the Urban District of
Thurrock.
Radioactive Substances Act, I960
2 of the 8 firms in the Borough holding certificates of
registration and/or authorisations from the Department of the
Environment under various sections of the Radioactive Substances
Act, 1960, had their old certificates/authorisations revoked
during the year and new certificates/authorisations issued.
In addition a copy of the Certificate of Registration under
Section 1 of the Act which had been issued to a large multiple
store was received.
This related to eleven luminous signs, each of which is
radioactive material solely because it incorporates, in a sealed
capsule mounted within a hermetically sealed plastic container
(so constructed as to withstand normal usage without breaking)
a gas which contains no radionuclide other than, and not more
than, 15 curies of tritium.
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