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The Covering of Cisterns.
In October last my attention was drawn to the absence
of suitable dustproof covers to the water cisterns of many
of the houses in the Sudbury Court Estate. On corresponding
with the Colne Valley Water Company the Secretary informed
me that this Company could compel the protection
and had, and would, insist upon builders providing such
covers in all new houses before connecting up the premises
with a water supply.
It was felt that it was not possible to make the instruction
retrospective with 26,000 houses.
Householders are urged to clean out their cisterns at
regular periods.
The Council has not the power to compel a landlord to
supply a tap from the main for each set of lodgers, but it is
assumed that every house has a draw-off from the main
placed in the usual position over the sink on the ground
floor.
Drainage and Sewerage.
(ii) Practically every house in the district is connected
with the main drainage system. No extensions to the existing
Sewage Disposal Works were carried out during 1935
in view of the early connection to the Middlesex County
Council's West Middlesex Trunk Sewer.
During the past year there have been constructed 2,900
yards of soil and surface water sewers, representing new
sewers and excluding any relaying of existing sewers.
2. Rivers and Streams.
The various water courses in the district are kept under
frequent observation and any cases of pollution traced to
their source. It is gratifying to note the marked improvement
in the condition of the rivers and streams since the
effluent from the various sewage farms, which originally was
discharged into these rivers and streams, has ceased to do so
by reason of the sewage being discharged into the Middlesex
County Council's West Middlesex Trunk Sewer.
When sewage pollution has been evident in the past the
Local Authority responsible, and also the Rivers Inspector
of the Middlesex County Council, have been promptly notified
and the matter has been followed up until there has
been a marked improvement.
The cleansing of these water courses is carried out
periodically by the Middlesex County Council, and in this
connection the Chaplin Road Brook was again cleansed
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