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iron outfall sewer 27 inches in diameter, which
started from the lower boundary of the district in
the Portsmouth Road at a spot midway between
the Catherine and Uxbridge Roads, and then passing
along the Portsmouth Road and through the
Market Place and Thames Street, delivered at the
Kingston Corporation Sewage Works at Down
Hall Road, close by Canbury Gardens and just
beyond the Railway Bridge.
The agreement between the two places was
that Surbiton should first pay a fixed charge of
£300 per annum, then 2½ per cent. on £27,357
which represented the original capital outlay, also
a sum equal to the product of a rate of 3d. in the
pound on the rateable value, and a proportion,
according to the rateable value, of the cost of
treatment, maintenance and repairs. These
charges for some years worked out at something
over £3,000 a year and were paid until 1901, when
a fresh agreement was entered into to meet the
cost of extra pumping consequent upon the
amount of sewage when swollen with storm water,
as delivered at the works, being under those circumstances
in excess of the maximum agreed upon
and involving additional and continuous pumping;
so to meet this another £600 a year had to be
paid, with the result that at present the total cost
works out at from £3,800 to £4,000 a year,
irrespective of the cost of the Tolworth Sewage
Farm.
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