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WATER SUPPLY
All the dwellings in the Borough are supplied from the Metropolitan Water
Board's main, and I am indebted to Dr. E. Windle Taylor, Director of Water Examination,
Metropolitan Water Board, for the following report:
"I can state that the water supply to the London Borough of Richmond upon
Thames has been of satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity during the year.
The supply to the area is River Thames—derived water from the Board's Hampton
works, and from five wells situated in Richmond and treated at the Petersham works.
This well supply was taken over by the Board on 1st April, 1965. The average results
of the chemical and bacteriological analysis of these waters are set out on page 51.
The water is not subject to plumbo-solvent action; remedial measures are taken at
once in respect of the discovery of any form of contamination.
The population supplied is 181,116 and the supplies are direct to the houses, no
premises being permanently supplied by standpipe. There were no new sources of
public water supply instituted in your area during 1965, nor any important extension
of trunk mains.
There have been some changes in the general scheme of supply following the taking
over of the former water supply of the Richmond Corporation; this has involved the
use of more River Thames—derived water.
The total length of new mains laid during 1965 amounts to 4,367 yards. All new
and repaired mains are disinfected with chlorine and the water in them proved satisfactory
before the mains are put into service".
The following water samples were taken in the Borough by Inspectors of the
Health Department:
Swimming Baths 60 Satisfactory
River Water 12 Satisfactory
Domestic Water 63 54—Satisfactory
9—Unsatisfactory
The unsatisfactory samples in the domestic water supply were mainly caused by
flooding and in each instance the water was allowed to run to waste until repeat
samples proved satisfactory.
SEWERAGE & SEWAGE DISPOSAL
I am obliged to (a) Mr. A. S. Knolles, B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., Chartered
C.E., the Borough Engineer and Surveyor, and (b) Mr. L. H. Thompson, A.M.I.C.E.,
A.M.I.S.P., Regional Engineer, Greater London Council for the following reports: —
a) The construction of the new gravity sewer in the Hampton area of the
Borough is now completed and a number of ejector stations have been closed down as
a result. Improvements to the air compressor stations at Bell Hill and Hampton Wick
are in hand, which, when complete, will improve the air supply to ejectors in the
Hampton and Hampton Wick areas enabling the worn out plant at Hampton works
to be closed down.
Sewage Disposal for the Twickenham area of the Borough was the concern of the
former Middlesex County Council and this function was taken over by the Greater
London Council from 1st April, 1965. The disposal works of the former Richmond
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