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The only other sewage works in the area, additional to Luxborough,
will then be the small installation at Millers Lane, Chigwell
Row, for which some reconstruction and improvement is also contemplated.
The scheme at Grange Hill has also made substantial progress
during the year. Early in 1939 the small Grange Hill sewage works
and the small works near to it (owned by the L.N.E.R.) will be
dispensed with, by the completion of the scheme for new sewers
connecting to a pumping station on the southern boundary of the district
near Fencepiece Road.
The various disposal works have been satisfactorily maintained
having regard to the difficult conditions and the heavy load imposed on
them. Loughton works has naturally presented the most serious
problem, and it was deemed desirable to adopt the precaution of
chlorinating the effluent. A plant was installed early in the year, and
this effluent has been receiving this treatment ever since.
2- Rivers and Streams—
The river Roding is the only one passing through the centre of
the district dividing the wards of Chigwell on the south east side and
Buckhurst Hill and Loughton on the north west side. There are no
buildings at present in the area liable to floods and this is under the
jurisdiction of the Roding Catchment Board.
3. (i) Closet Accommodation—
A few closets on the conservancy system remain in Chigwell and
Loughton Wards. They are situated in remote cottages out of the
reach of sewers.
(ii) Public Cleansing—
House refuse is removed weekly by covered motor vans under
contract. The refuse is disposed of at the contractors own tip near the
district boundary, the contract requiring that the precautions and
methods of controlled tipping shall be adopted.
Butchers' offal and refuse from fish shops is disposed of at the tip
adjoining Loughton Sewage Works, being delivered there by the
tradesmen and dealt with under the Engineer and Surveyor's instructions.
A small charge is made for the facilities given. Putrescible
refuse from greengrocers' shops is deposited at this tip also but is
dealt with without charge.