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carrying out of works in a further 11 areas, information regarding
which can be found in the following table, particulars of
which have been kindly supplied by the Borough Surveyor:—
1. Extension of Eastern Sewage Works Stage III £350,000
2. Toms wood Hill, Forest Road soil and surface
water scheme £285,000
3. Green Lane, Goodmayes Lane, Trenance
dens surface water scheme £55,000
4. Green Lane, Hazeldene Road surface water
scheme £42,500
5. Seven Kings Water Stage II £368,000
6. Hainault surface water scheme to Tudor
Crescent £58,000
7. Eastern Avenue, Aldborough Road to Seven
Kings Water £53,500
8. Wynn Valley surface water scheme £295,000
9. St. Barnabas Road screening chamber and
syphon to Eastern Sewage Works £61,000
10. Culvert — Eagle Pond £6,200
11. Chig well Road — re-laying sewer £89,000
Insofar as complaints of choked drains are concerned, the
two drainage officers operating in the Wanstead and Woodford
and Ilford areas respectively have ensured that the works
to remedy nuisances have been carried out expeditiously.
Much praise has been received from ratepayers within the
Borough regarding the efficient manner in which this work has
been executed.
Further complaints have been received regarding pollution
of streams and lakes within the Borough generally the pollution
being by oil, due mainly to the parking, not only of private
motor cars but also of commercial vehicles, in the roadways
together with the carrying out of repairs thereto on the highways,
resulting in a great deal of oil gaining access to surface
water sewers thereby causing pollution of the lakes within
the district particularly at Goodmayes, Cranbrook and South
Park. Special efforts have been made to trace the more serious
contaminations.