[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridport (Union) R.D.C.

  • Bridport (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridport (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 5 - The Council own a well worked with a hand pump supplying a fev/ houses at the top of West Hoad. A scheme has been dravm up to install a pressure pump set over the well sjnd to pipe the water to the properties involved. The Ministry of .^rp.nsport have requested that the prpposcd pump house be set back from the line of the road and negotiations are now in progress vdth the ovraers of adjacent land regarding this. Fishponds. This hamlet is served by various springs which are collected and led to a small reservoir of 525 gallons capacity from which the supply is piped to a. roadside standpipe near the church, Litton Cheney. In October, an agreement was reached between the Council and the Bridport Water Works Company for the latter to supply the higher parts of the village, and in December, work was started on the scheme. Loders, In connection with the proposed housing site, a water supply scheme has been preliminarily prepared for extracting water from a spring between Yondover and Uploders, but until proposals for the housing site and madn draina,ge for the villcage have advanced further, no more work regarding the water supply is being undertaken. Morcombelake. The Council's huts and a few surrounding properties are supplied by water piped from a small reservoir which is fed from three sources on Hardovm Hill, This hill also supplies a large part of the village through the private Haste ad ^d Bridge's supplies. A vicll with an avera.ge yield of 600-7^0 g.p.d. feeds the site on which six Council houses have been erected, Puncknowle, As fa.r back as' Ma.rch 195*^> n Public Enquiry was held but the findings at the Enquiry ha.ve not been implemented and the villagers are still compelled to go with their buckets to fetch water from the only available source in the village, nairely, the shoot opposite the Old Post Office. The discussions which occupied the whole of 1952 between the riparian ovmers and the Council rega.rding water troughs for cattle went on throughout 1953 had not been completed at the end of the year. In the meantime, the villages of Puncknowle, Swyre, and Bexington are still without a sa,tisfaotory waiter supply, and in a.ddition, no Council houses can be built in Puncknowle village until a good water supply is p.vailable. Shipton Gorge. A Public Enquiry/' wan held in July, regarding the scheme to supply the villa.gc. This scheme will be carried out in three stages naracly:- Sta.ge I - Borehole, Pump House, Rising Main, Stage II- Reservoir. Stage Ill-Delivery Main, It is hoped tha.t the sewerage scheme for the villa.ge will be constructed at the same time as Stage III so that the delivery mains and sewer can be la.id in the same trench at the saire time over the route where they coincide. It is hoped tha.t the wa.ter scheme ?/ill be in operation in the Autumn pf 1954. S^miondsbury. The village receives piped supplies from the Golfox Esta.tc.