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Report of the Sanitary Inspector
(Sections C, D & E)
SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
1. (i) Water Supply.
The district is within the Metropolitan Water Board's
area of supply. There are outlying parts of the district which
do not receive the benefit of this supply and depend solely on
water from shallow wells. Samples obtained from these wells
during the year were reported upon satisfactorily.
At Claverhambury, the Clapton Stadium Ltd. supply
their dwelling houses and kennels, together with an adjoining
dairy farm, with water obtained from an artesian well. The
water is satisfactory in quality and quantity.
(ii) Sewerage and Sewage Disposal.
Sewage from the urban parts of the area, together with
that from parts of Upshire and High Beech, is conveyed by
both gravitation and electric pumps to the Main Works at
Brooker Road. The treatment here comprises screening, sedimentation
and aeration in circular lilteri, after which the
effluent is irrigated and finally discharged into Cobbins Brook,
a tributary of the River Lee.
A similar works on a small scale serves the Sewardstonebury
area, whilst the sewage from about 25 dwellings in
Sewar.lstone gravitates to a small works consisting of septic
tanks and rectangular filters, together with an internal combustion
pump for lifting sewage up to the filters and final
irrigation channels. •
The remainder of the district is not sewered, drainage
going mainly to cesspools which are emptied quarterly under
a Council contract.
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