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Drainage and Sewerage.
With the exception of a small sparsely populated
outlying portion of the district adjoining that of the
Epsom Rural District, the whole of the district is
drained by means of pipe sewers, the surface water
from houses erected during the present century and
from the whole of the streets being taken into separate
surface water sewers. All new streets are provided
with duplicate sewers when constructed.
The Sewage Disposal Works were constructed in
1912, and have been working efficiently since that
date, no complaints having been received from the
Thames Conservancy with regard to the purity of the
effluent discharged from the Works. The average
dry weather flow at the Works is 850,000 gallons per
day, and the Works are amply sufficient to deal with
a further increase up to a million gallons with the
exception of the possibility of installing additional
filter beds.
Closet Accommodation.
Every house is provided with a water closet,
mostly, if not all, with proper flushing arrangements.
Scavenging.
Section 36 of the Public Health Act, 1875, is
enforced in the district. It empowers the Council
to insist upon each house being provided with a
portable galvanized iron dust bin where no suitable
ashpit exists, or where they are unsuitably placed
or beyond repair.