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The present agreement with the Uxbridge Corporation runs to 31st
March, 1964. There is a limit to the sites available there, and the Uxbridge
Corporation invited Harrow and Ruislip and Northwood to consider the
possibility of setting-up a joint committee to explore the question of
providing a refuse destructor to serve the three districts. No site suitable
for a destructor of this size is available.
The Engineers and Surveyors of the three districts submitted a report
on possible methods of disposal. Of four of these, disposal in wet pits
or by composting were ruled out. That left the alternatives of disposal by
destructors or by bulk handling. The Highways and Cleansing (General)
Sub-Committee considered these alternatives at their meeting in September
and recommended that the main Committee approve the principle of the
provision in the Borough of two refuse destructor plants. The main
Committee at their meeting in October however, decided on the principle
of the disposal of refuse by bulk handling.
SWIMMING BATHS
There are two open-air swimming baths in the district, one at Charles
Crescent, Honeybun Estate, Harrow, and the other at Christchurch
Avenue, Wealdstone. The former, constructed in 1923, measures 165 feet
by seventy-five feet, with a depth of seven feet to three feet six inches. The
water, after being filtered, is treated by chlorination. Dressing accommodation,
shower and foot baths and sanitary conveniences are provided.
The Wealdstone bath, constructed in 1934, measures 165 feet by seventyfive
feet, with a depth of eight feet six inches to two feet six inches; in
addition, there is a shallow semi-circular beginners' pool. Suitable dressing
accommodation, with shower and foot baths, and sanitary conveniences,
are provided. The water is treated by passing through filters and is then
chlorinated by the break-point method.
The duration of the turn-over period varies according to the extent
the baths are used, but it is at least once a day, and at busy times is every
eight hours.
Daily tests are carried out for the presence of free chlorine and to
determine the pH value.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES
Work was started in 1960 on conveniences at Rayners Lane and at
Belmont Circle. By the end of the year, consent had been received for
the erection of a convenience in the grounds of what was at one time the
Honeypot Lane Isolation Hospital and tenders had been accepted.
Negotiations were proceeding about conveniences to be put up at Woodridings
Close, Hatch End and about the one in Kenton Road. In the early
part of 1961 the convenience at Rayners Lane was opened and in