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PART III
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OP THE AREA.
Water supplied to the Borough continues to be of the high
quality we now expect from the Metropolitan Water Board.
The department continues to receive complaints about storage
cisterns and it must be stressed that no power is available to the
Local Authority to require a supply "off the mains", where storage
cisterns are in use the tenant is under an obligation to keep
the cistern covered and clean.
I am indebted to the Director of Water Examination of the Metropolitan
Water Board, for the following information
The supply to the Tottenham area has been satisfactory both
in quantity and quality during the year 1950. Details of the
analytical results of the water passing into supply are given in
the tables appended.
The area is supplied from two sources
(a) Water from the New River and treated at the Board's filtration
works at Hornsey and Stoke Newington
(b) River Thames water stored in Walton reservoir and treated at
the Board's filtration works at Walton.
Samples are collected on five days in every week, or more often
if required, at each stage of the purification process and tests
include physical, chemical and microbiological examination. All
new and repaired mains are chlorinated before being restored to use
and samples of water from them are tested bacteriologically to ensure
that its quality is up to that normally supplied.
The water supplied to this area is not plumbo-solvent.
Drainage and Sewerage.
The dual sewerage system continues in operation in Tottenham.
Surface water is kept separate and discharged direct into the local
watercourses and the soil sewage drains to the Tottenham and Wood
Green Pumping Station at Markfield Road, where is raised and discharged
into the London County Council's system. It appears that the
Drainage Scheme for East Middlesex, which includes Tottenham, is