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In December last, Mr. Essex, the Engineer of Leyton, gave an
estimate of £244,000 for the same work, which was a figure less than the
L.C.C. one, but obtained only by reducing the size and shape of the main
sewer.
During the whole of 1912, as I have said on a previous page, the
Edmonton effluent was analysed a number of times with a result
satisfactory to the Lea Conservancy Board and the Middlesex County
Council, and Mr. Cuthbert Brown stated (December 6th, 1912) that by
spending an additional sum out of the rates of £1,000 per annum, the
effluent can be kept in the same condition of purity. These considerations
must, and rightfully so, have greatly influenced the decision of the
Council on January 14th, 1913, to withdraw from the Lea Valley Joint
Sewage Scheme, which, with provision for disposing of storm-water, is
(at our latest .estimate) thought to be £370,000, instead of the sum of
£240,000, mentioned at the early part of 1911.
It would appear, even to persons who are not engineers, that a
more comprehensive scheme, which would include Finchley, East Barnet
Valley, Friern Barnet, and perhaps Hendon Urban District Council—
all the west of us—would be worth waiting for, and would receive the
cordial support of all the local authorities concerned and the Local
Government Board.
ROADS.
The following private streets have been made up during the year
under the 1892 Act:-Wellington Road (from Dryden Road to near
Gardenia Road), Edenbridge Road (from Wellington Road to Queen
Anne's Grove), and Constance Road (from Edenbridge Road to Park
Avenue)—a total length of 795 yards taken over for future maintenance
at the public expense.
During the past year the tar spraying of the roads has been
considerably extended, which has assisted to mitigate the dust nuisance
and make the houses on either side of the roads more habitable.
Several road widenings have been carried out at dangerous points,
viz.:—Bury Street, the east end of Silver Street, and Montagu Road;
and others are in the negotiation stage. Angel Road and Town Road
have been widened by taking in the forecourts of small houses.
A new cemetery has been opened out in Montagu Road by the
Tottenham Park Cemetery Company, the roadway has been widened at
this point at a cost of £600, and the cemetery drained into the Council's
main sewer.