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DRAINACE AND SEWERACE.
The Council's soil and storm water drainage systems have been
extended during the year to meet the requirements of building estates
in course of development and road improvements.
The soil sewer in Woodmansterne Lane has been extended and 13
cottages on the smallholdings have been drained into it. Water
closets have been fixed in all these cottages and the existing earth
closets abolished.
A new soil sewer has been constructed to drain efficiently Messrs.
G. Payne's factory and the Croydon Cricket Club's pavilion, the existing
cesspools being no longer required.
Negotiations are still proceeding for the drainage into the main
sewer of the pavilions in Hillcrest Road.
It is anticipated that the surface water sewer in Manor Road and
Woodcote Road from Springfield Road to Stafford Road will be
abolished in 1939 and a considerably larger sewer laid, thus obviating
flooding under the railway bridge.
The last of the new sludge digestion tanks constructed by the
Croydon Corporation at Beddington Farm was brought into operation
during the year, and no nuisance has arisen since the scheme has
been in operation.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
All the watercourses in the Borough receive constant supervision.
In accordance with the usual practice, the River Wandle was
cleaned out from the Croydon Borough Boundary to Mitcham, all silt,
tree branches and obstruction being removed, while considerable
lengths of camp sheeting were providing to maintain the banks.
Negotiations are in progress with the Surrey County Council and
Wallis's Mills regarding alleviation of flooding at Beddington Village.
The Surrey County Council intend to appoint a Rivers Pollution
Officer in 1939, to deal with and report all cases of river pollution.
In this connection a survey has been made of all factory effluents discharging
into the River Wandle.
Work is to be commenced immediately on the abolition of the
existing weir and sluice gate to the lake in Grange Park and a new
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