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the sewers within the Surbiton District as settled
by the Agreement with Kingston. The Engineer
was instructed to get out fresh plans and estimates
to comply with these requirements, and
they will shortly be laid before the Board.
The scheme, as accepted, proposes to treat the
sewerage of the whole district, on its reception at
the Lower Marsh Lane, by chemical precipitation
and subsequent filtration through artificial filters,
the effluent then going direct to the Thames. In
connection with this, the earliest portion of the
undertaking will be directed to the doing away of
the works at Tolworth, and the carrying off of the
sewage, hitherto treated there, by new and direct
gravitating sewers along the valley where the Tolworth
brook now runs past the Alexandra Recreation
Ground, up to a certain point before its confluence
with the Maiden River, at which point it
will turn left-handed and be conducted by a tunnel
under the hill and railway to the new site. This
portion of the work will, it is hoped, be completed
and the sewage diverted within some eighteen
months or so from the work being started. It is
also the intention of the Council, with a view to
economy, to erect a Destructor on the site and to
use the house refuse as a fuel in a steam producing
plant for the purpose of driving the various
engines required on the sewage works.
I particularly ask the attention of the members
of the Council to the excellent report of the
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