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The Surveyor made the following Report:—
To the Sewers and Sanitary Committee:—
Vestry of St. Giles, Camberwell.
"London County Council," request for "return
of all cases of Flooding within this Parish
(with detailed particulars) between 1st June,
1888, and the 1st July, 1880."
In reference to the above, I beg to report that, without
entailing very considerable labour, time, and expenditure,
I am unable to supply the amount of detail asked for.
Isolated cases of complaints, which have been made from
time to time to the Vestry, might be quoted, and if hereafter
deemed necessary by the Council will be supplied by
the Vestry; but they would not by any means represent the
intensity of the evil which, in this low lying district, is
made manifest at the periods of excessive rains, such as
occurred in June and July, 1888.
In the two Reports which I made to the Vestry on
those floodings, I attempted to shew: First, Our liability to
such Flooding through the peculiar low lying, or datum
value in the lowest or Northern and Eastern parts of the
Parish where the Surface Levels of the Roads in some portions
is considerably below the mean High Water Level
(namely, 12.50 ordnance datum); and that there existed
Properties in these Roads having Basements some five to six
feet below the surface, equal say to 6.0 ordnance datum,