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It held many meetings and went into the
merits of many plans, but after holding the field
from 1877 to 1885, and having presented many
lengthy and exhaustive schemes for enquiry, it
was finally dissolved by Act of Parliament without
having done anything whatever of practical
value towards solving the question under consideration,
as, for various reasons, unanimity or
anything like it was never attainable.
Then Kingston evolved a scheme of its own to
which we ultimately became a contributor. Surbiton
entered into an agreement with Kingston
for the treatment of its sewage for a term of
twenty-five years, which came into being on the 1st
July, 1887, and will now expire on the 30th June,
1912.
The first essential work was the collection and
diversion of the sewage of Surbiton, for at that
time Tolworth, Hook and Southborough had not
been taken over by us but formed a separate
special drainage district of itself within the area
of the Kingston Rural Sanitary Authority, and
they had devised and started the idea of the
present Tolworth Sewage Farm which was taken
over by Surbiton in 1896 as a going concern and
maintained as such from that date to the present
time.
To effect this collection, Surbiton, at a cost of
between £5,000 and £6,000, constructed a main
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