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The only other sewage works in the area is now the small plant
at Millers Lane, Chigwell Row. A scheme for reconstruction and
improvement has been deferred on account of the war, but minor
modifications have been made and the works have given a satisfactory
effluent.
Grange Hill Pumping Station has been completed and put into
service during the year and the works at Grange Hill, as also the small
L.N.E.R. works adjoining, have been dispensed with by connections to
the new sewer laid and delivering to the pumping station.
With the discontinuance of the use of Loughton works, the
chlorination plant there has been removed. During the period it was
in service it had exercised a very beneficial effect on the effluent from
the overloaded works.
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.
Road gullies (in streets under the Council's control) are emptied
by a mechanical suction process. The gullies are cleared three times
in each year and are re.sealed with clean water after each emptying.