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DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The Borough Engineer & Surveyor has kindly supplied the
following notes on sewerage works carried out during the
year:—
Sewerage works totalling approximately £18,000 in cost
have been carried out including soil sewers, surface water
sewers and culverts and a small pump and pump house for
dealing with storm water. The most important sewerage
scheme carried out has been the East Lane Surface Water
Drainage Scheme costing approximately £13,000 which provided
a new outfall sewer for the drainage of a large area of North
Wembley.
Sewage disposal now being taken over by the West
Middlesex Drainage Board, no works of this nature have been
necessary and the old sewage works are to be demolished.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Brent, which forms a boundary between this
Borough and the Boroughs of Willesden and Ealing on the
south east, provides the outfall for practically all of the watercourses
in Wembley. The River Brent itself after flowing
through adjoining districts eventually empties into the River
Thames.
The other rivers and streams are the Wealdstone Brook.,
Hendon Rural Brook, Wembley Brook, Preston Brook, Dors
Close Brook, and a number of ditches discharging into the
various brooks.
The surface water sewers in the Borough discharge into
the open water courses and a close watch is therefore kept
for any evidence of pollution.
Three hundred and thirty-four inspections of water courses
were made during the year and as a result a number of cases
of pollution were discovered. In most of these cases the
pollution was due either to errors of construction not necessarily
primarily in Wembley, or to the misuse of rain water gullies
on private property. Every effort was made to trace the
source of the nuisance, but in some cases this has been a
difficult matter.
The Middlesex County Council have continued to cleanse
periodically the main rivers and streams in the Borough.
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