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and loan sanction for same was received from the Ministry
of Health during November.
(The work was commenced early in February, 1938.)
Pumping Station, Kingston Vale.
This pumping station has to deal with very heavy
contributions during storm periods due to infiltration
and, the surrounding district having been developed
considerably of late, the pumping station is unable to
deal with the flow. The existing sumps are of insufficient
size, while the pumps are obsolete.
A scheme and estimate of £7,020 covering the works
of constructing a new pumping station with much larger
sump capacity, the sewage being raised by 4" centrifugal
pumps (vertical spindle type) operated by 26 B.H.P.
electric motors, in duplicate with float operated switch
gear was approved by the Council on 30th December.
Sanction for loan is, at present, awaited.
The above scheme has been held up pending the
approval of the Ministry of Transport on the lay-out of a
traffic roundabout adjacent to the site of the pumping
station.
Houses draining to Sutton.
Sewage from 444 houses on the Station Estate,
Worcester Park, is pumped to the Borough of Sutton and
Cheam Sewage Disposal Works for treatment.
Houses draining to the Wandle Valley Works.
Sewage from 49 houses on the Kingston By-Pass Road
drain to the works of the Wandle Valley Joint Drainage
Board.
REFUSE DUMP ADJOINING HOGSMILL RIVER.
House refuse, tipped by an adjoining Authority, near
the western boundary of the district, appears to have caused