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5. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION AND CESSPOOLS.
Such premises as have earth closets, chemical closets
or cesspools are situated in areas which have no sewer available
for drainage connections.
Extension of the sewerage system is progressing and
connections are being made as these extensions permit.
Number of Cesspools and Septic Tanks:
Buckhurst Hill 1
Chigwell 88
Loughton 14
6. PUBLIC CLEANSING-.
Domestic refuse is being collected once weekly throughout
the District by the Council's vehicles and labour. A fleet of seven
compressing type refuse collection vehicles is constantly employed,
supplemented by further vehicles for special collections, including
a service of removing bulky articles (e.g. mattresses, bedsteads etc.)
on request from householders.
This free service cannot be stressed too much as it is
provided to combat the other alternative of tipping old mattresses etc.
into ditches or on to Forest land.
Trade refuse is also collected, a charge related to actual
cost being made only for refuse the character of which is clearly not
domestic.
Refuse is at present disposed of by controlled tipping at
a tip provided by the contractor. Payment of the firm is per load
and includes levelling, compacting and covering, a bulldozer and the
covering material being provided in the price. The area exposed at
any one time is kept to a low minimum and measures are taken against
fliea and vermin as necessary from time to time.
This tip will be filled during the near future and the
Council has just received a short term planning consent for controlled
tipping by the Council on another site. Long term arrangements for
refuse disposal will have to be made during the next few years.
Salvage of paper and rags continues to produce sales
during the year but at present the paper market is not good. Nevertheless
the Council proposes to modernise the paper salvage arrangements
now that this work has been transferred to the Depot at Rectory Lane,
Loughton.
Road gullies in adopted District roads are emptied (and
re-sealed with clean water) by machine three times during the year by
contract. If the Council takes over County Roads, there will be a
great increase in the number of gullies tc be done in future years.
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