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Lea Valley Drainage Scheme.
The proposed Lea Valley Drainage Scheme is one that has a
very important bearing on the future of Chingford from a
sanitary point of view. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive how it
can ever become a large and populous place in the absence of
some such undertaking as the one proposed. The pumping
station on Mansfield Hill, and the sewage farm on Chingford
Road have been sources of grave anxiety to the Urban Council
from the very first moment they assumed the reins of office. As
time rolls on and the population of the place increases, as it
certainly will do, the present arrangements are very likely to
prove quite inadequate, and it is quite possible that a deadlock
may ensue in both institutions. With the adoption of the abovementioned
scheme, all these difficulties looming ahead would
disappear and no additional burden would be imposed on the
ratepayers, as the sewage farm could certainly be sold for much
more than it cost, as a building area. It is satisfactory to know
that the Urban Council have given the proposed scheme their
very favourable consideration.
Proposed Waterworks Reservoir on
Chingford Marsh.
One rather serious objection to the carrying out of this
scheme by the East London Waterworks Company is that the
Urban Council would be debarred from acquiring land on the
Chingford Marsh, should it be deemed advisable at any time to
have a small subsidiary sewage farm there for the Low Street
district, instead of pumping up the sewage into the high level
sewer, as is now the case. It seems probable, too, that the
natural drainage of this part of the parish would be obstructed
to some extent by the construction of this huge reservoir, whatever
precautions the Company might take to carry off the
surface water descending from the high ground on the East
side of Low Street.