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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 and a
trial refuse container has been installed in Borders Lane.
Trade refuse also is collected, a charge related to actual
cost being made only for refuse, the character of which is clearly not
domestic.
Until now, refuse has been disposed of by controlled tipping
in Chigwell at a site leased to the Council. The refuse was covered
with spoil, hardcore or other innocuous filling, and during tipping,
only a very small surface of refuse remained uncovered. Measures
were taken against flies etc., as necessary from time to time, but
this rarely happened.
As this tip is now full, further and more long term
arrangements for refuse disposal have been made at great cost to the
ratepayers because other possible controlled tip sites are not
available within the District. Transportation of refuse in bulk to
tips in outer Essex started in April, 1969 using 3 large bulk transporter
vehicles and from the new Transfer Depot in Luxborough Lane.
Salvage of paper continued to produce sales during the year.
Trailers have been purchased for attachment to the refuse vehicles so
that salvage can be better pre-separated before tipping.
Nearly 5,000 road gullies in County and District roads are
emptied (and re-sealed with clean water) by machine regularly during
the year by contract.
(c) Swimming Pool:
The Council's new covered swimming pool was finished in the
summer of .1968, and has had a very successful year, It is a real
asset to the District, particularly for children and clubs, and the
total number of users was 300,960 for the year's operation.
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