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In the District there are now 34¼ miles of foul sewers and 23¾
miles of surface-water sewers, and no less than 15 miles of these
have been constructed during the past 3 years.
Sewers.—During the past year a total of 9,151 yards of
sewers were laid as follows: —
New foul sewers 93 yards
New surface-water sewers 1,670 „
New Estate Sewers.
Foul sewers 3,243 ,,
Surface-water sewers 3,363 „
Sewers Relaid.
Foul sewers 366 „
Surface-water sewers 416 „
Water Supply.—Practically the whole District is now
supplied by the New River Company, and very few hQuses are
now dependent on wells for their water.
Watercourses.—Bounds Green Brook and Pymmes
Brook remain in about the same condition. The periodical
cleaning by the Middlesex County Council helps to keep them
from getting very foul, but they are still much polluted owing to
the discharge into them of sewage effluents from neighbouring
Districts, and also of drainage from a factory and adjacent cottages
recently erected in the District of East Barnet. The attention of
the Middlesex County Council and of the East Barnet District
Council has been called to this matter, which is one requiring as
immediate attention as possible in the interests of this District.
House Refuse Collection.—Refuse and dust are collected
from almost every house weekly and taken to one of the Council's
shoots, the principal one being situated at Barrowell
Creen, the site of an old gravel pit. In consequence
of the increase in the population of the district,