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The completion of these improvements is expected to result in a
continued 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, 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 exist.
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. 2 large schemes - in The
Avenue area, Loughton, and in central Buckhurst Hill - have been completed
this year.
A small area of Buckhurst Hill drains into the sewers of the
London Borough of Redbridge at Woodford, thence via Chingford and to the
East Middlesex Scheme. Part of Chigwell Row drains to the London Boroughs
of Redbridge and Barking.
There are 5 outlying pumping stations lifting the flow from low
lying areas up to the main gravity sewers.
(b) Public Cleansing:
Domestic refuse is being collected once weekly throughout the
District by the Council's vehicles and labour. A fleet of 7 compressing
type refuse collection vehicles is constantly employed, supplemented by
further vehicles for special collections, including a FREE service for
removing bulky domestic articles (e.g. mattresses, bedsteads etc.) on
request from householders.
THIS FREE SERVICE CANNOT BE PUBLICISED TOO MUCH as it is provided
to combat the other alternative of tipping old mattresses, etc., into ditches
or onto forest land or roadside verges. The new Civic Amenities Act will
also be of help in combatting this problem.
Trade refuse also is 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 in Chigwell
at a site leased to the Council. The refuse is covered with spoil, hardcore
or other innocuous filling, and during tipping, only a very small surface of
refuse remains uncovered. Measures are taken against flies, etc., as
necessary from time to time, but this rarely happens.
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