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Clean Air Act, 1956, Section 3.
10 notices of installation or applications for prior approval were
submitted to the Council during the year. A total of 57 have now
been registered.
Clean Air Act, 1956, Section 12.
Some 15 notices in No. 5 Smoke Control Area were served during
the year.
General Information.
Meetings of the National Society for Clean Air and its South East
Division, the Standing Conference of Co-operating Bodies for the Investigation
of Atmospheric Pollution; and the London and Home Counties
Clean Air Advisory Council are attended as a routine.
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal.
I am indebted to the Engineer and Surveyor for the following information:—
"The arrangements for sewage disposal from the areas at present
draining to Bretons Farm Sewage Disposal Works are of course not ideal
due to the inadequacy of the Works and various unsatisfactory features
of the present sewerage system which will be overcome by the construction
of the Riverside Sewage Disposal Works extensions and the trunk
sewers. Nearly all the soil sewerage problems of the District are associated
with the network of main sewers which will be beneficially
affected by the trunk sewer scheme.
The scheme will dispense with the need for sewage pumping stations
at Harold Hill, at Hacton Farm and at Briscoe and Parsonage Roads,
Rainham, which in turn will alleviate overloading of the Ravensbourne
valley trunk sewer, the high level sewer near Suttons Lane, and main
sewers at Rainham respectively.
Associated with the main scheme, the projected Corbets Tey sewer
will dispense with the present pumping station there and an improvement
of the main sewer from Roneo Corner to Bretons Farm (of which a
section was enlarged several years ago) will be needed.
Elsewhere in the district, overloading of the soil sewers in the
central area will be alleviated by the progressive stages of the concurrent
improvement of the soil and surface sewers therein, and there will then
remain only a very few other minor relief schemes to be implemented.
Some parts of the sewerage system will, no doubt, need to be relayed
in the future on account of their age and deteriorating condition,