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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 oollecting
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 Pigeons Hotel under the towpath as far as and
under Friars Lane across Richmond Green and by way of Parkshot
and the Railway Station Yard to Kew Road as far as the Selwyn
Fountain, and thence under the Lower Mortlake Road as far as
the Boundary of the Borough in Lower Richmond Road, it is
thence continued along that load and via Kew Lane to the Outfall
Works at Mortlake.
A second outfall sewer commences in Mortlake Road, Kew, and
passes thereunder as far as the Borough Boundary at Gipsy Corner
and thence to the Outfall Works.
The town was partially re-sewered in 1898. The separate system
was introduced several years ago, and surface water sewers are
now laid along most of the streets within the Borough, the principal
exceptions being portions of the Petersham Road and Sheen Road
near the Borough Boundary.
Treatment of Sewage.
The method of sewage disposal at the Outfall Works is that of
procipitation and bacterial filtering beds, the effluent passing into
the Thames. The Engineer to the Main Sewerage Board is Mr.
J. T. Fairley, M.I.C.E.
Water closet accommodation is general throughout the Borough.