[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Billericay R.D.C.

  • Billericay (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Billericay R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are still many areas situated away from the publicf mains dependant on such supply. The village of Mountnessing is still without an efficient and wholesome water supply. However, the Southend Company are now prepared to pump water from the Mountnessing bore, but are only going to put down half a mile of water main. ‘ThisI is a step in the right direction, but does not go far enough. 'Hie Company should be urged to extend their proposed main for a greater distance than half a mile. • i Parts of East Florndon are also much in need of Ihe ex- tension of the public main. Parts of Basildon likewise are in similar need; the Southend Company has agreed lo put a- standpipe in the end of their main by Basildon Church from wliich the occupiers of houses on the south side can obtain water by carting or man handling. Rivers and Streams. The district abounds in small streams; on the eastern side these all ullimately empty into the river Crouch, on the western side into the rivers Wid and Boding. Into some of these streams the effluent from the varibuis^ sewage disposal works flow, but there is no real pollu ion, as the effluents are analysed at intervals, and action taken wherr an effluent shows more than ten per cent of impurity. * Drainage and Sewerage. « ' A w^ell-cquiped up-to-date sewage disposal works deals with the sew'age from the more populous portions of Shenfield and South Weald. The process employed is the oxygenating one. These works also deal with the sewage of Brentwood Urban District. A smaller w'orks situated at the eastern side of Shenfueld Common deals with a small area round about there. Anoithcr small disposal wmrks deals with a part of Miouiilnessing. Great Burstead, from the top of the hill near the Schools', and the portion of Mountnessing parish adjacent to Billericay;, is also dealt wdth by a disposal works.