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SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. WATER SUPPLY.
The town's water supply is provided "by the Metropolitan
Water Board who successfully maintain constant supervision
over the purity and adequacy of the supply.
Well water is used for industrial purposes at certain
factories, but is not used as a domestic supply, all the
houses in the town being provided with a main water supply,
2. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The position regarding disposal of sewage remains the
same as for last year, namely, that the sewage from the
Borough is pumped across the river into a sewer in the
Teddington area, for treatment at the Mogden Disposal Works
of the West Middlesex Main Drainage Board. This arrangement
is a temporary one pending completion of the Hogsmill Valley
Joint Sewerage Board's works, and the construction of the
pumping station at Kingston to transfer the Kingston sewage
to the new works.
3. RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Thames forms the Western boundary of the
Borough and is under the control of the Thames Conservancy
Board. The Hogsmill River, a tributary of the Thames,
flows through the Borough.
When the Hogsmill Valley Joint Sewerage Board fully
operate the new purification works, the treated effluent from
that works and the storm overflows will run into the Hogsmill
River, which will continue to be sewage effluent for a very
high percentage of its volume.
It is hoped, however, that the increased flow will bring
about an improvement in the condition of the river.
4. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
All elosets in connection with dwelling houses in the
Borough are on the water carriage system.
5. PUBLIC CLEANSING.
The Borough Surveyor is responsible for the collection
and disposal of house and trade refuse, Disposal is still
carried out by tipping into a worked out gravel pit provided
by the haulage contractor.
The refuse from this Borough, Surbiton and Maiden is
transferred to large capacity road vehicles anc3 transported
to the tip by the contractor. The refuse is now weighed on
a weighbridge and 11,425 tons of refuse have been sent from
this Borough in 1957.