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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
1. WATER SUPPLY,
The water supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board giving a
piped service to 16,535 dwellings housing 55,940 residents, has been
satisfactory in quantity and quality. It is not plumbo-solvent.
Examination of samples taken throughout the year have confirmed the high
standard maintained by the Board both chemically and bacteriologically.
2 . SWIMMING POOLS.
The swimming pools in the District have been regularly visited
and tests have been carried out to check the bacterial standards of the
water. This has been found to be satisfactory and no complaints concerning
the condition of these pools have been received.
3. RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Roding flows through the centre of the District
dividing the Ward of Chigwell on the south-east from those of Buckhurst
Hill and Loughton on the north-west side. There are no buildings at
present liable to floods in the river area within this District which is
under the jurisdiction of the Essex River Authority. Some flooding of
fields in the valley occurs during the exceptionally heavy winter rains.
4. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The soil drainage from the greater part of the District
gravitates to the main disposal works at Luxborough Lane which was
improved in 1938, extended after the war and is now being further
improved with the addition of final effluent and storm water treatment
lagoons and further percolating filters.
A smaller part of the District drains to the Millers Lane
Sewage Disposal Works where the Council has also decided to make
improvements. The completion of these improvements at both Works is
expected to result in a higher standard of purity in the effluent to be
discharged to the River Roding.
As regards sewerage, the Council is faced not only with the
increasing foul flows from the new development and flooding but also
with some ageing and unsatisfactory sewers which contribute to the
flooding difficulties referred to below. Generally, there is a
separate system of drainage in the District except in the older parts
where combined sewers still ocist. These combined sewers have caused
flooding at various points in the District and work has started on the
laying of new surface water sewers to remove part of the flow from the
combined sewers in South Loughton and Buckhurst Hill and thus from the
Sewage Treatment Works.
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