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The cost of the freehold land was about £911 per acre for 60 acres.
There are 16 acres reserved for building purposes, as shown by the etched blocks for
sites of buildings on the accompanying plan, to recoup the Ratepayers of the Metropolis in
respect of the above expenditure.
(Signed) GEORGE VULLIAMY,
Superintending Architect."
Water Supply.
The Vestry having received a Memorial from the inhabitants of Chilton-street, and
numerous complaints from residents in other parts of this parish, relative to the scantiness of
the supply of water to their houses by the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company,
another memorial was presented to the Board of Trade, urging inquiry into the grounds of
such complaints, with the view of having the same remedied, upon which Captain Tyler,
R. E., again attended on the part of that Board, and inspected several houses in various parts
of this parish in reference to the said complaints. Captain Tyler afterwards reported fully
to the Board of Trade as to the state of the water service of each house visited by him, and
that in some instances the complaints were well founded, and in others the fittings were
found to be faulty; also, "that it would be for the Board of Trade to take such steps with
regard to the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company as they might deem necessary, in
order to prevent a re-occurrence of the constant complaints which were very discreditable to
the Company."
The Vestry have since received from the Board of Trade a copy of a reply made by the
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company to the said report of Captain Tyler, as follows:—
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company,
Sumner Street, Southwark.
20th September, 1869.
SIR,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 10th inst., enclosing copy of the
Report of Captain Tyler to the Board of Trade on a memorial presented from the inhabitants
of Rotherhithe, complaining of a short supply of water, and requesting to know what means
this Company proposed to take to remedy the evil complained of. In reply, I am instructed
to inform you, that the Directors of this Company have for some time past been making
provision to afford an increased supply of water to the whole of their district by the
construction of entirely new works at Hampton, comprising a Depositing Reservoir of three
and a half acres area, three Filtering Beds, having a joint area of three acres, and two engines
of 450 horse-power.
At Battersea the Company are also constructing an additional subsiding Reservoir,
capable of containing 27,000,000 gallons. The new Hampton works are now practically
completed, and within a week or two will be in regular working order. A new line of 30inch
main has also been laid to connect them with the western portion of the Company's
district, comprising Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, Mortlake, Sheen, Wimbledon,
Roehampton, Richmond, and I etersham, which will then be supplied entirely from the new
Hampton Works, thus relieving the Battersea Works from supplying the above districts, and
rindering the surplus power thus created available for the increasing requirements of the
eastern portion of the Company's district in which Rotherhithe is situated.