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Two open septic tanks have been laid down with a
capacity of 950,000 gallons each; and the old settling tanks
have been knocked into one, making another open septic
tank of 600.000 gallons capacity. Making in all a cnpacity
of 2,5(10,000 gallons. Also a storm roughing filter of an
area of 1,178 yards has been laid down, made of clinker
three feet in depth.
Two-and-a-half acres of contact beds have been started
and split up into ten beds. These will be filled with coke
breeze five feet in depth, and of such a size as to pass
through a screen excluding all above two inches, and all
below one inch. It is expected that these beds will be
completed by the spring of 1906, and be in full working
order then.
The effluent passes from the works to empty into the
river Thames below Barking Creek.