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The completion of these improvements is expected to result in
a continued high 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. Schemes
costing a total of £250,000 have been completed but there is still more
work to be done.
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 and refuse
is received at the Luxborough Lane Depot on Saturdays and Sundays.
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.
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