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All connections (from private property) within the street are
constructed by the Vestry at the expense of the owners, the sum
of £88 19s. 6d. being receivable in respect thereof for work at the
before mentioned premises.
The new regulations for house drainage referred to in my
previous annual report, have now been in use for nearly a year, and
are found to work satisfactorily.
They are as follows:—
1. Seven days' notice of the intention to drain a house or
building is to be given to the Vestry. Forms of application can be
obtained from the Surveyor.
2. A second notice is required when the work has not been
commenced within six months from the date of application, and the
sanction is given only to the person or persons making the application.
Such notice must be accompanied by a plan drawn to a scale
of not less than 8 feet to an inch, accompanied by a block plan,
showing the locality of the intended works, drawn to a scale of not
less than 44 feet to an inch. The plan must show as much detail of
the house or premises proposed to be drained as is necessary to
enable a judgment to be formed as to the efficiency of the intended
drainage. It must also show the position of all water closets,
sinks. bath wastes, &c., the lines of new drains with the sizes
thereof to be shown in rod. and any existing drains in blue upon the
plan.
4. All horizontal pipes from water closets shall have an internal
diameter of 6 inches if of stoneware, and an internal diameter of
5 inches if of iron. For the drainage from areas, sinks, and subsidiary
drains, four inch pipes may be used.
5. The whole of the available fall is to be made use of, and no
drain to have a less fall than 1 in 40. In any case, however, where
a gradient of less than I in 40 cannot be avoided, special provision
shall be made for an automatic flushing of the drains by the adoption
of an approved flushing syphon. Continued-