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readily be understood that the Rye Lane Sewer, which
there required a free outlet for its discharge, on meeting
with the impediment of a fully charged outlet, filled up
very quickly and was the cause of much of the flooding
complained of in that locality; a larger sewer would have
met with no better result under such circumstances. This
blocked outlet sewer at Albert Road also impeded the flow
from Copeland Road and its vicinity, and at, and about
Druid's Place by the “ Heaton's Arms ” where these sewers
work in conjunction, they met with the same resistance and
shared a like fate.
High Level
Effra Main
Metropolitan
Sewers.
The High Level or Effra Main Metropolitan
line of Sewer which crosses the Rye between
East Dulwich Road and Nunhead Lane, was
also heavily charged, and thus impeded the free emptying
of the large sewer which comes across the Rye, running
north and south up to the Stevens Estate at Sunnyside, &c.
This latter Sewer receives the Sewerage from Forest Hill
road and its surroundings, but all were blocked and overpowered
through the intensity and quantity of the rainfall,
and the interrupted discharge above referred to.
The foregoing are some of the palpable causes, as I
explained to you in Committee, of the complaints which
you had to entertain , no remedy within the power of the
Vestry exists to prevent such results on the recurrence of
such an excessive downpour, the sizes of the local Sewers
are, I think, proved to be sufficient, under the normal condition
of the district, inasmuch that on the cessation of the
storm on the 26th the flooding quickly subsided, and with
the exception of the residuum of the drainage which