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Stoke d'Abernon, and part of Chessington are supplied by the Leatherhead
Water Company; and Headley is supplied by the East Surrey Water
Company. The supply in each instance is derived from wells in the chalk,
and that of the Sutton Company is softened. There is a constant supply,
except in the case of a small part of the district of the Leatherhead Water
Company, which is at too high a level to permit of the maintenance of a
constant supply. A number of houses at Worcester Park and the northern
part of Cliessington are supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board.
The District Council receive from the Sutton Water Company copies
of the reports upon the monthly analysis of the water.
With the exception of a very few outlying houses, the supply throughout
the Distriot is obtained from the mains of the Companies.
Rivers ane Streams.—With the exception of complaints received from
a neighbouring Authority that an unsatisfactory effluent was being discharged
at times from the District Council's Outfall Works at Worcester Park into
the Beverley Brook, no instance of pollution came to the Council's notice.
The effluent appeared to be at all times within the standard of the Port of
London Authority.
Drainage and Sewerage.—The Parishes of Aslitead, Cheam, Cobham
and Ewell, the northern part of the Parish of Cuddington, and Eastwick,
in the Parish of Great Bookham, are sewered, sewers being available
throughout these districts, except for a small part of Ewell, and for
Fairmile, Hatchford and Little Heath, in the Parish of Cobham. In all
cases the sewers are on the separate system.
The sewage from Ashtead is treated in combination with that from
Leatherhead at the Leatherhead Outfall Works. The treatment at the
Worcester Park Works, to which the Cheam and Cuddington sewers
discharge, at the Cobham Works and Ewell Works, is by "double-contact"
beds; part of the Cobham sewage is treated by means of sprinklers.
In 1914, Messrs. John Taylor and Son presented a scheme for the
drainage of Banstead and Woodmansterne. The matter was shelved in
consequence of the War, but again came under the consideration of the
District Council, who decided to proceed with the scheme, in 1922; the
Ministry of Health then suggested that the Parish of Walton-on-the-Hill,
in the Reigate Rural District, should be included in the scheme, and a
conference was held at the end of that year between representatives of the
Ministry and the District and Parish Councils concerned, and Messrs.
Taylor subsequently prepared a scheme, amended to allow of the proposed
extension.
After further negotiations, a second conference was held in February,
1924, when it was found that the estimated cost was in excess of the
amount for which a loan, based upon the rateable value of Banstead, was
permissible. It was therefore decided that the outlying parts of the Parish
must be for the time excluded from the scheme, and it was also decided not
to proceed with the portion of the scheme relating to Woodmansterne.