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will provide a constant outlet for our local sewerage, and a
deep and effectual means of draining all streets and premises
within the lower portions of the parish, it is to be
hoped that no unnecessary delay will take place in putting
this work into the hands of the contractors, inasmuch that
it will take considerable time in its execution, and any euspension
of this work only further protracts the period when
this parish shall receive its full and most needed share of
benefit from the Main Drainage Works. The Main High
Level Sewers, as I before remarked, will tend much to
lessen the evils of our depressed area by cutting off the
flood waters, but the Low Level Sewer with its pumping
appliances, can alone provide for the effectual sewerage of
such a locality.
Temporary In reference to the time which must necessarily elapse
Pumping
station at ere the completion of these vast works, I would here ven-
Earl ssewer
Rotberhithe. ture to remark, that I still think if my suggestion of "a
pumping station to be constructed next the Eiver Thames,"
at the Earl Sewer outlet (see my Eeport, dated Sept. 16th,
1857) were even now to be adopted, (that viewed only as a
temporary measure), the expense would be amply justified
by the result, in preventing such floodings as have occurred
so lately as during the last four weeks, and to which I
referred in an early part of this report.
LOCAL NEW SEWEES.
Local New From the foregoing statement relative to the Main
Sewers
Drainage Works, it will be seen that but little local
sewerage can at present be undertaken, and even of such