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which part is open and part culverted, changes its direction to run
westerly and crosses the district boundary between Cuckoo Hill and
Eastcote Road. The Yeading Brook rises in two sources, the one near
the recreation ground, Pinner Road, the other near Moat Farm. These
two streams, which are partly culverted, join at Hooking Green Bridge,
from where the brook runs in a south-westerly direction to the Hendon
Rural District Sewage Works at Pinner, this portion of its length being
open. Rising in Harrow Weald, the Wealdstone Brook runs in an easterly
direction through Wealdstone, crossing out of the district at the Kenton
Road near Kenton Grange farm. The Kenton Brook, rising in Kingsbury,
passes near the Little Stanmore Sewage Farm to flow in a southerly
direction out of the district, later joining the Wealdstone Brook. The
Edgware Brook, which rises in two sources south of the Stanmore village,
flows in a southerly direction to the Great Stanmore Sewage Works, then
easterly towards Edgware, later to run into the Silk stream.
The largest of the lakes are those at Cannon's Park (8.7 acres and
10 million gallons), Bentley Priory (4.3 acres and 5 million gallons),
Harrow Weald Park (3.1 acres and 2 million gallons), and Temple Ponds
at Stanmore Park (2.9 acres and 2 million gallons).
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
Refuse Collection.
The practice before the war was the weekly collection of house
refuse, while special arrangements were made for the collection of trade
refuse. It had not by the end of the year been found possible to revert
to the weekly collection of house refuse which is still being collected
fortnightly. The inconvenience arising from this altered practice would
be much less were it possible to obtain a sufficiency of suitable dustbins.
Refuse is collected from some 65,000 premises, the average weekly weight
being 550 tons. The collection of trade refuse is undertaken at a charge ;
it has as yet not been found possible to restore the pre-war arrangement
for the collection of garden refuse.
Refuse Disposal.
Before the war refuse was treated, some at the destructor in South
Harrow, some at the separation plant at Wealdstone, and some at sites
suitable for controlled tipping. The Council had decided that when the
plant was ready all house refuse was to be treated at the hyganic plant
at Wealdstone. The construction of this plant was not sufficiently
advanced for any refuse to be treated there during the war years and the
proposal has now been abandoned. In the meantime, owing, amongst
other reasons, to the low calorific value of the refuse, treatment at the
destructor and at the separation plant was discontinued, all refuse then
being disposed of by controlled tipping. This has resulted in what land
was available for the purpose at Cannon Lane, Pinner, and at Elmgrove
Road, Wealdstone, being used up much more rapidly. It was reported