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This Company has agreed to allow the Grand Junction Waterworks
Company to use a long section of its 36-inch Thames Supply-main
extending from Isleworth Corner to Kew, and from Kew to Edgeware
Road. The two Companies can thus supply each other's districts in
case of emergency.
The Board of Works for the Poplar District and the Walthamstow
Local Board having drawn the attention of the Local Government
Board to the circumstance that in the last cholera epidemic the advent
of the disease into the east of London closely followed the distribution
of unfiltered water from the River Lea, which had been drawn from
certain reservoirs of the East London Water Works Company,
situated at Old Ford, the following statement is published:—
(a.) By reference to the East London Waterworks Company's
Act of 1867 (30 & 31 Vict., cap. 149), certain works are
mentioned in connection with this subject, especially in subsections
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These works were all completed
about 13 years ago.
(b) No open reservoirs now exist at Old Ford, and the covered
reservoir adjoining the Eiver Lea has been filled up, and
there remains only one small covered well capable of
retaining about 1½ hours' supply of water for use of the
engines. This well receives the filtered water direct by means
of cast-iron pipes from the filter wells at Lea Bridge, all
open conduits having long since been discontinued.
This Company is now assisting the Tottenham Local Board in their
water supply, pending alterations which are being carried out in
their works. On the 27th May a connection was made at the request
of the Tottenham Local Board with the covered reservoir at their
Tottenham pumping station, and water was run in from the Company's
mains at the rate of 10,000 gallons an hour, which represented
the full discharging capacity of the 4-inch pipes and meter. Water
was at the same time pumped into the covered reservoir in small
quantities from the Tottenham well. The mixed water is then
pumped through the Tottenham rising-main during the day, and into
the reservoir at night.
The East London Company states that more than ordinary precautions
are being taken in order that the Company's supply may not
become, either in quality or quantity, deteriorated during the present
summer and autumn.