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being constructed by the Metropolitan Board of
Works is completed along the Uxbridge Road, the
Queen's Road and Westbourne Grove Sewers
should be re-constructed at a deeper level, and
the current reversed, in order that the Sewage
West of Queen's Road may flow direct into the
main line.
At the junction of Queen's Road, Westbourne
Grove and Pickering Place, the Sewers are only
nine feet deep. The stream is exceedingly sluggish.
There are long lengths of invert, with a fall
the reverse way, which requires about 100 cube
yards of filth to fill up these elongated Cesspools
to a level with other portions of the invert.
About sixteen miles of Brick Sewers, in which
the deposit varied from two to nine inches in
depth, have been thoroughly cleansed; the hard
deposit which could not be removed by flushing,
was raised to the surface and carried away in
carts.
Seven hundred and forty-two Gully Drains
have also been cleansed.
Jobbing Works, comprising 213 separate and
distinct works, such as the repair of Sewers and
Gullies, together with other works connected
therewith, have been executed by the Contractor
to the Vestry, to the value of £1785:12:4. This
amount includes the sum of £630:4:10 received
from Owners of Property for fixing Traps at
outlets of existing Drains, constructing Gullies,
and laying Drain-Pipes under thoroughfares taken
to by the Parish.