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SUCTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
1. Water
The water supply of the District is provided by the Metropolitan
Water Board except for one house in the District where it is drawn
from a well. This house is in the ownership of the Conservators of
Epping Forest and is situated in the forest a long way from the
mains supply.
The water is piped and has been generally satisfactory both in
quality and quantity.
The number of houses is 17,434 and the estimated population at
mid-year was 62,070.
Four samples of water were taken during 1959 from a watercourse
in Chigwell.
The results were reasonably satisfactory.
2. Drainage and Sewerage
Soil drainage from the greater part of the District is by
gravity to the main disposal works at Luxborough which were
modernised in 1938, considerably enlarged shortly after the war,
and are in process of further improvement. The construction of
four additional primary sludge digesters has commenced, and the
remainder of the scheme will proceed during 1960. It is the
intention to complete these improvements by introducing extra
treatment of the final effluent to ensure that a higher standard
of purity in the discharge to the River Roding is maintained. In
the meantime, the Works have operated reasonably well and given a
fair effluent.
A scheme for a new Southern Outfall Sewer, designed also to
provide relief for overloading of the existing Northern Outfall
has received Ministry approval and will be commenced during 1960.
There is one small subsidiary works at Millers Lane, modernised
after the war, which maintains a good effluent.
One small area drains to the sewers of Wanstead and Woodford,
thence to Chingford and the East Middlesex scheme.
Most of the Hainault Estate drains to the sewers of the
Dagenham district and the Works of that Authority.
There are four outlying pumping stations lifting flow from
low lying areas up to main gravity sewers. One of these stations
has recently been replaced by a new one; a second is to have new
machinery increasing its capacity during 1960; a third will be
replaced by a new one as part of the Southern Outfall Sewer scheme
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