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Canal Basin.
The water in the Canal Basin was run off on April
16th, 1892, and about 600 tons of mud removed. It
was again emptied on July 23rd, when more mud was
removed.
Water.
Paddington is supplied with water by the Grand
Junction and West Middlesex Companies, which draw
their supplies from the Thames, as do also the Chelsea,
the Lambeth, the Southwark, and Vauxhall Companies.
The remaining Metropolitan Water Companies are the
Kent Company, whose water is drawn from the deep
wells, and the New River Company and East London
Company, both of which derive their water from the
River Lea and other sources. For the purposes of
comparison, Professor Frankland, in his annual report
to the Registrar-General on the condition of these
waters during 1892, includes also the results of similar
examinations of the water supplied by the Colne
Valley Water Company and the Tottenham Local
Board of Health. He states that except in November
and December the weather during the year 1892 has
been on the whole not unfavourable for the operations
of the Companies who derive water from the rivers
Thames and Lea, and the quality of their supplies has,
except in December, been much more uniformly good
and less subject to violent fluctuations than during the
previous year. The want of additional storage
reservoirs, and, in some cases, of larger filter areas, is