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The London County Council following on the authority
from the late Metropolitan Board of Works, has, I know,
this very important subject of a remedy for these evils of
Floods under their serious consideration, and that Engineering
talent of a high character has it under investigation at
this time.
It is a subject which in my judgment calls for most
hidden research and calculation. Unthink I am not far
wrong when I suggest that the Meteorological conditions of
the rainfall and moisture of this country has so changed
within the last 30 or 40 years, as to have undermined the
previously presumed necessities both for the main and
subsidiary sewers and outlets of the Metropolis, the increasing
and rapid rain discharges on to the equally rapidly
covered surface of the land which thus almost immediately
delivers itself into sewers of a size wholly inadequate to
receive it, raises at once the large question what sizes
would be sufficient on such supreme occasions, or what new
expedient can be designed to avoid the annoyance and
injury which a continuation of the present system entails.
Such amendments of the present system, in order to
cope with the altered circumstances and requirements referred
to, must be undertaken by the authority in whose
charge it specially rests.
No doubt the London County Council in dealing with
this matter, will also deal with all necessary remedial works,
primarily in connection with the arterial sewers of the
Metropolis, and they will also possibly suggest relief lines
affecting the districts which are dependent upon them, and
this hereafter would materially guide and direct also the