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Common into the Eye Pond, thence down to Cow lane by an
arched sewer; and along Cow lane it is again open until it
reaches near to Clayton road. Although I have, both on
the Eye near the head of the Cricket Ground and also near
the Heaton Arms Public House, introduced means of diverting
the sewage (except in times of storms) into covered
channels, nevertheless when floods occur there necessarily
is brought down into these open ditches (and eventually
into the pond) much that is offensive and prejudicial to the
healthy reputation of this favorite spot; with this view
therefore I am induced (but not without some misgiving
that I may possibly be misunderstood) to recommend that
the favorable opportunity which will be afforded of effecting
vast improvements on the Eye, by filling up and abolishing
these open ditches, and possibly the pond itself, with the
spoil from the works now about to commence, should not
be lost sight of. The suggestion to deprive Peckham Eye
of its pond may probably be considered an attempt at an
act of spoliation not justified by necessity, but an examination
into the whole subject, to which I have given much
consideration would, I believe, fully authorize the proposition,
and the execution of which would eventually tend to
the improvement of this locality. Believing that this matter
must at no distant date become a subject of further deliberation,
I will only anticipate a future report to enable me
further to lay my views before you.
As regards the Low Level Sewer, the detail plans not yet Low Level main server
having been made public by the Metropolitan Board of
Works, I will not now further refer to it than to say, that
this is the most important work of all for this locality, as it