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yet accurately ascertained what drains are connected with
it.
Although the Lewisham Hoard of Works, at consideral,
cost and inconvenience, had arranged some of their sewers e
as to prevent the sewage of Penge from getting into thi
culvert, and (as I was informed) a former Sanitary Committe
of Beckenham had intimated that they did not intend
allow it to be used as a sewer, I found that a considerable
number of houses, in both Parishes, drained into it.
I informed both Boards of this some months ago, in order
that the evil might not be augmented, as new houses were
being built near the boundary.
Proposed
works.
Having determined to use the boundary culvert tor clea
water only, I carefully considered the works that would be
required, keeping steadily in view the desirability, for obvious
reasons, of limiting the expenditure to works which are neccessary
at present, and leaving the cost of doubtful works to
be weighed against the inconveniences which may remain.
Some of the works and arrangements which I have
allowed to stand are not such as I should originate, but they
may answer for the present at all events, and, possibly, for a
considerable time.
The questions, large and small, which have arisen in the
course of the surveys and investigations, have been very
numerous and complicated, and seemed to be almost interminable
; and although I have spared no pains in attempting
to do the best I could under the circumstances, further
information may throw a new light on some of the matters.
Underneath is a Schedule of the Works which I recommend
for construction; most of them have been discussed, and in
general terms approved, by Committees of both Boards.