Sewage disposal : report of a committee appointed by the President of the Local Government Board to inquire into the several modes of treating town sewage / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 : report to the Local Government Board / by R. Angus Smith.

  • Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee to Inquire into the Several Modes of Treating Town Sewage.
Date:
1876-1882
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Credit: Sewage disposal : report of a committee appointed by the President of the Local Government Board to inquire into the several modes of treating town sewage / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 : report to the Local Government Board / by R. Angus Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Capital 5,800Z. at 6 per cent., to be repaid with interest. Yearly instalment - - - - £348 0 0 Rent of 65 acres of land ... - 290 0 0 Rent of 13 acres of land - - - - 54 0 0 £ 692 0 0 Less rent of land sublet with the sewage - 350 79 429 0 0 £263 0 0 The mean daily flow of the sewage is about 400,000 gallons =: 1,7B5 tons, or 651,525 tons yearly. The annual cost to the Local Board of Health in dis¬ posing of the sewage is 692Z., or at a rate of -^ths of a penny per ton; they receive an improved rent for the sewage farm, 429/., an amount equal to about •i^ths of a penny per ton of sewage per year, and consequently lose 263Z., or about /^ths of a penny per ton, or at a rate of per head of the popula¬ tion, or about l|c?. in the pound on the rateable value of the district. The volume of sewage is at the rate of 48 gallons per head of population, or about five persons contribute to every ton of sewage. The capital 5,800/. will be paid off, and then the annual payment of 348/. will cease, and the rates will thus be relieved to the extent of about 2d. in the pound on the present rateable value. Tunbridge-Wells. Population (about) Rateable value - Houses _ _ - - Waterclosets - - - - - 23,000 ^ld2,914 5,750 5,635 Capital Expended on Works to dispose of the Sewage. Purchase of farms, law costs, arbitration ex¬ penses, and compensation to tenants and cost of laying out farms to receive the sewage - .^87,243 0 0 Cost of cleaning out Summer Hill Lake - 744 17 8 Costs of the Chancery suit . - - 3,000 0 0 <£90,987 17 8 The Yearly Cost of disposing of the Sewage, Capital 90,988/. borrowed at 6 per cent., to be repaid with interest. Yearly instalment - £5,459 5 0 Cost of disposing ofthe sewage, including working expenses of both farms _ _ . 8,199 0 0 £13,658 5 0 Less produce of both farms - - ■ 7,671 0 0 £5,987 5 0 The mean daily flow of the sewage over both farms is 650,000 gallons=2,902 tons, or 1,059,230 tons yearly. The annual cost to the Local Board in dis¬ posing ot the sewage is 13,659/., or at the rate of 3c/. per ton ; they receive for the produce 7,671/., an amount equal to 1ft/. per ton of sewage, and conse¬ quently lose 5,988/., or about 1ft/. per ton, or at the rate of 5s. 2ft/. per head of the population, or about lOt/. in the pound on the rateable value ofthe township..