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Eventually an engineer was selected, land was
provisionally obtained near Tolworth Court on the
banks of the Maiden river, and the proposed site
and plan became the subject of a Local Government
Board Enquiry in February, 1907. This
plan was finally set aside by the upper Board
mainly on the ground of cost, but also on a refusal
to allow the effluent to be discharged into the
stream. Next, an Enquiry was held in February,
1908, as to the merits, or otherwise, of a site in the
Lower Marsh Lane, a site that had been indicated
by the Local Government Board, and which had
been considered and reported upon by the late Mr.
Mather, a former Surveyor to the Council. The
result of this was that the site was approved of
and the Engineer was set to work to produce a
scheme. In due course this second scheme was submitted
to the Local Government Board and formed
the subject of yet another Enquiry in November,
1908, when there was developed some sharp criticism
and opposition to it on certain specific
grounds, and a very long wait followed before the
upper Board gave any decision. This they did in
the form of not absolutely rejecting the plan, but
of allowing it to be clearly understood that they
withheld their sanction to it in its then present
condition.
We had now got well into 1909, but in the end
the Engineer produced an amended scheme that
was sent up to the Local Government Board for
their further consideration. A long delay again
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