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The programme for 1972/3 includes
Elm Park (St. Nicholas Avenue) — relief sewer.
Several small schemes, subject to rate estimate approval.
Nearly 4,000 calls were received by the Department during
the year, mostly by telephone, concerning obstructed sewers (combined
drains) which are cleansed by the Council free of charge.
Follow-up visits are undertaken by the Inspectorate if and
when further obstructions are reported to the same sewer within
a limited period of time. From these visits 180 notices to either
repair or renew any defective sewers were served and the necessary
works effected.
The Director of Public Health Engineering, Greater London
Council has very kindly supplied the following information:—
"Modifications to the domestic plant at Riverside Sewage
Treatment Works started in February 1971, were completed in
November 1971 but, due to several reasons, the plant has not
yet been operated in its modified form. However, it did continue
to operate to a satisfactory standard.
The Eastern Outfall Works, now known as Bury Farm Works,
continued to produce a high quality effluent throughout the year.
The present arrangements for domestic sewage disposal
are satisfactory. However, further extensions may be required if
various applications for the discharge of trade effluents to the
domestic sewers now being considered, are granted.
Design work for a biological plant to treat trade waste is
now complete and trial borings on these works are now being
carried out. However, no firm date for the commencement of the
new plant has yet been set.
The incidence of smells which led to complaints from the
public during the early part of the year, ceased when the trade
effluent discharge which was giving rise to the offending smell
was no longer discharged to the domestic sewer."
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