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Trenches.
The Gas, Water, Hydraulic Power, Telegraph, and other
Companies have opened 734 trenches in the carriageways and
footways during the year.
The London Hydraulic Power Company have laid new
mains or extended existing mains in the following streets:-
Boro High Street, Newcomen Street, Stoney Street, Union
Street, and Whitecross Street. New service pipes have also
been laid in Maidstone Buildings, Great Guildford Street,
Bankside, Tooley Street, Southwark Street and Castle Street.
The concrete Flushing Tanks in the District are used at
regular intervals, and the pipe sewers to which they are
connected are thereby kept in good condition. Certain Brick
Sewers are also flushed from the river at all stream tides.
GEORGE ROPER NORRISH,
Surveyor.
June 24th, 1890.