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It appears therefore to your Committee that the proper authority
to take active steps to abate this nuisance is the Lea Conservancy
Board, and they therefore recommend, having regard to the difficulties
experienced in the past by the late Hackney District Board
in their endeavours to prevent the pollution of the River Lea, that
the London County Council be asked to bring pressure to bear upon
the Lea Conservancy Board with a view to compelling that body
to immediately put into force the powers they possess to have this
nuisance permanently abated, and that a copy of this report be
forwarded to the London County Council in reply to their communication.
All of which your Committee respectfully submit.
HENRY HULLAND, Chairman.
JOSIAH D. DENHAM.
WALTER. E. ROWE.
As a result of this report some action was taken, I believe by
the Lea Conservancy Board, but at present with little result.
Ah the banks of the river are being raised by the London
County Council to form walks, I think it is very essential that something
further should be done to improve the quality of the water.
Since the effluents from the Leyton and Walthamstow sewage
farms are no doubt responsible to a large extent for the present
unsatisfactory state, the diversion of the effluents from the river into
the Metropolitan Drainage System would altogether change the
character of the water. Nothing less than this will, in my opinion,
effectually remove this nuisance.
NEW RIVER WATER COMPANY (CONSTANT SUPPLY).
On this subject I have to report that on making inquiries of the
London County Council, as to what progress had been made in
furnishing that part of Hackney supplied by this Company with a
constant supply, I was informed "That the whole of the district in
the Parish of Hackney supplied by the New River Company, and