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All the water obtained from the Petersham Well is passed
through sand filters at Petersham.
The filter beds, which were completed in July, 1910, continue
to act efficiently. The water is analysed at least once
a week by your Medical Officer of Health.
In certain portions of the Borough the supply is intermittent.
Those houses situated on the line of the main from
the pumping station to the reservoir cannot be otherwise under
existing conditions, as the supply has to be shut off for short
periods each day in order to get sufficient pressure to pump
the water to the storage reservoirs situated on the Hill.
One hundred and, sixty intimation notices were served
upon owners or occupiers to remedy defective conditions in connection
with water storage tanks, defective drinking water tanks,
tanks so placed or constructed as likely to cause contamination
of the water therein, defective covers of drinking water tanks,
and dirty condition of drinking water tanks.
Contamination of the water in storage tanks is frequently
caused by the presence of dead birds, mice, dirt and other
filth, and this is often aggravated by the cisterns being placed
in inaccessible positions.
Drainage and Sewerage.
The Richmond Main Sewerage Board, formed in 1887, of
which the constituent authorities are the Richmond Corporation
and the Barnes Urban District Council, deals with the
Sewage from the Borough of Richmond and the Urban District
of Barnes.
The Board's Sewage Works are situated alongside the
river, near West Hall, in the Parish of Mortlake.
The Sewage of the Borough is conveyed by numerous
collecting sewers into a main outfall sewer belonging to the
Richmond Main Sewerage Board. This outfall sewer runs
from the corner of Petersham Meadow for a short distance
under Petersham Road, thence from the Pigeon's Hotel under
the towpath as far as, and under Friar's Lane, across Richmond
Green, and by way of Parkshot and the Railway Station Yard