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Board of the several Water Companies' undertakings, and letters
were addressed to the Borough Members requesting them to support
the same in the House; and such Petition was duly presented
and supported by Mr. Ritchie.
Thames Subway.—A Petition has been presented by order
of the Board in favor of the Bill promoted in Parliament to authorize
the construction of a Subway for foot passengers between
Thames Place, Poplar, and Rotherhithe.
high tides.
With regard to the inundation of Union Stairs, Wapping,
during high tides, a letter was addressed to this Board by the
Metropolitan Board of Works, stating that such property was still
liable to inundation at times of very high tides, and that only partial
measures of prevention had been adopted by the District Board,
and enquiring whether the Board were prepared to execute the
further works necessary to prevent floods in future at the spot in
question. In reply a letter was addressed to the Metropolitan
Board, by direction of this Board, requesting to be informed of
the nature and extent of the further works that Board considered
necessary. Subsequently a report of the Engineer of the Metropolitan
Board as to the further works considered necessary was
forwarded to this Board stating that the proposed extension of the
stairs would be a suitable protection of the locality from high tides
in the opinion of that Board. The said report was referred to
your Works Committee, and I made a report thereon to the effect
that the present flap had been effectual in preventing flooding from
high tides over the passage in question; that the works proposed
by the Metropolitan Board if carried out would be dangerous, and
likely to cause serious accidents to persons using the stairs; and
that there would be opposition on the part of the adjoining Wharf
eccumers to the proposed projection into the river. Also that in