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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
The brickwork of the old gulleys in Union Place
having been found in a defective condition, and as the
Vestry had decided to have the roadway paved with
asphalte, it was necessary that the old gulleys should
be destroyed, and new stoneware trapped pot gulleys
substituted for them, so as to improve the sanitary
condition of this street, the old gulleys emptying into
the small barrel sewer not being effectually trapped.
The expense to the Vestry was £15 16s. l0d.
Complaints were received from time to time in the
Sewers Department, from the owners and occupiers of
stables at the West end of Hyde Park Gardens Mews,
that their stables were frequently flooded with water,
consequent upon the stoppage in certain gulleys there.
These gulleys were of brick, and combined with an old
defective brick drain, having an outlet into sewer in
Stanhope Street. The old brick drain has been
destroyed, and the gulleys re-constructed with separate
pipe drains and directly connected with the sewer in
Stanhope Street, at a cost of £27 4s. 6d.
In order to improve the surface drainage of old
roads in the Parish, the gulley drains and sand pits
winch were found defective have been re-constructed
or repaired as circumstances required.
Three hundred and eight stoneware block flap
traps have been fixed in sewers at the outlets of
house and gulley drains.