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Considerable progress has been made in the last year in basic survey work and the design
of schemes which are referred to in the next paragraph. In addition schemes to the value of some
million have not only been designed but the construction work has been carried out.
North wood/Eastcote Road/Joel Street areas
This area extends from the boundary with Harrow in the East through Northwood Hills to
the London Transport Railway Piccadilly/Metropolitan lines at Eastcote in the South. To the
West the area includes Ruislip together with Breakspear Road and Ducks Hill Road. In the North
the area is from Mount Vernon Hospital along the boundary with the Rickmansworth Urban
District and Watford Rural District. The Southern boundary is the London Transport Executive
Piccadilly/Metropolitan railway line. A survey has been completed in this area in respect of the
foul drainage and of the surface water sewers. A scheme for re-sewerage valued at some £900,000
has been designed and subject to approval by the Department of the Environment a contract
should be let early in 1972.
A study has been completed in the Ickenham and North Hillingdon area where flooding
has occurred due to the inadequacy of both the foul and surface water systems. A scheme, some
£380,000 in value, covering about 512 hectares (1,260 acres) practically divided equally north
and south of Western Avenue at Hillingdon Circus has been designed, and approved by the
Department of the Environment. This is the first stage of an overall scheme and provides in the
main for new district sewers and new outfalls for both foul and surface water drainage. This work
is programmed to commence very shortly. A second stage of surface water sewerage is being
investigated.
The foul and surface water drainage systems of Harefield have been examined and a complete
survey made of the areas where flooding occurs. A scheme, some £300,000 in value has been
designed and submitted to the Department of the Environment for approval and subject to this
approval it is programmed to let a contract to allow work to commence towards the middle of 1972.
Further schemes which can be associated with new highway works, as for example new
sewers in George Street, Uxbridge, and as part of the next stage of the Uxbridge Relief Road
have been designed and will be executed in the ensuing year.
It will be seen that considerable progress is being made in the execution of the Council's
large drainage programme. Design on further schemes is in hand in order to ensure that the
momentum now created will be kept up in order to maintain the necessary progress.
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