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authority has to face. Some 3,289 tons are collected yearly.
Much of this might be obviated and expense to the ratepayers reduced
if individual householders would burn in their own grates such
material as paper, rags, potato peelings, cabbage leaves, and similar
substances; few do so, with the result that the average dust-bin
contains an objectionable amount of readily decomposing material.
OPEN SPACES.
Maiden Green.—The provision of seats and the improvement
of this open space has not yet been accomplished.
Beverley Park.—This recreation ground is being more appreciated
by the inhabitants every year.
Swings, and other open-air amusements have been provided for
the children, and the ground for recreation purposes has improved
remarkably with the constant attention now given by the groundsman
and boy in attendance.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS.
A report on the method of treatment of sewage and work carried
out at the Sewage Works during the year by your Surveyor is
appended.
The Maldens and Coombe Urban District Council.
Report on Methods of Sewage Disposal.
The sewage from all parts of the District gravitates to the
Sewage Works, and is discharged through a 6ft. barrel sewer, into
a sump or pump well, situated in the pump house.
As described in the Annual Report for 1909, alterations have
been made to the sump, which has enabled the sewage to be delivered
to the tanks in a more uniform character than was formerly the case.
The total dry weather flow of sewage treated at the works is
approximately 500,000 gallons per day of 24 hours. The sewage
passes over a weir before entering the tanks and the volume is
recorded on the measuring apparatus.
Owing to the practice which has formerly prevailed of allowing
roof water from the rear of houses to enter the soil sewers, the