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30
Water Supply.
During the year, eleven premises were connected to the main
water supply, having previously been dependent upon stored rainwater.
Of approximately 24,000 dwellings, only 36 are not provided
with a main piped water supply. Of these, 22 are situated where a
water main is not available in the roads fronting their premises.
These are in isolated parts of the district and generally dependent
upon rain-water collected from roofs and stored in underground
tanks, but three premises obtain their source of supply from a private
well.
The remaining fourteen premises are not connected to a main
water supply although it is available in the roads on to which they
front. Some of these are a considerable distance from the road, but
nine premises are within 80 feet of the Metropolitan Water Board
main.
Fifteen week-end bungalows are not connected to a main water
supply.

The Metropolitan Water Board supplies the mains water for the
whole of the district.
The Public Health Department obtain samples of this water at
monthly intervals from various dwelling houses throughout the
district. Forty-two samples were taken and the Analyst's reports
show that they were all satisfactory.
The Director of Water Examination, Metropolitan Water
Board, has kindly reported on the water supply to the Urban District
during the year 1959 :
" The water supply to the district of Orpington during 1959 was
derived from six local wells, namely, Orpington, North Orpington,
Sundridge, Eynsford, Westerham and Lullingstone. In addition there