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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 sewage from the Borough gravitates to the Corporation
Pumping Station and is then pumped to the Hogsmill Valley Joint
Sewerage Board's Works for treatment. This is a modern plant
recently opened and successfully provides very effective purification
and disposal for the sewage of Epsom & Ewe11, Surbiton, Maiden
& Coombe, and Kingston-upon-Thames population.
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.
A considerable portion of the flow of this river comprises
the effluent from the Hogsmill Valley Joint Sewerage Board Works.
4. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
All closets 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 and transported to the tip by the
the contractor. The refuse is now weighed on a weighbridge and
36,886 tons of refuse have been sent from this Borough in 1959.
6. SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.