[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C., Rochford R.D.C. (South East Essex).

Benfleet (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1964

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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C., Rochford R.D.C. (South East Essex). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$stiition at Sdutliw'irk I'aim sewaf^i' is |)Uinpi‘(l dirc'ct into tid.il waters \ ia the two i)unii)ing mains, the original 18 in. main and the new 24 in. main wliieh was installed in 1962, together with new storm pumps. I'his new work, representing the first j'liase of the Council’s new Sewage Disposal Works proposal, has been designed by their Consulting Engi- neers, Messrs. Sandford, h'awcett iS; Partners. Construction work on the new sewage works which commenced in 1963, proceeded through 1964 and it is anticipated that the new works will be in operation by Decem- ber, 1965. At the main pumping station two variable speed j^umps have been installed to pum]) sewage at the required velocity to the Sewage Works. The Council ha\-e instructed their Consulting Engineers to prepare a scheme involving a relief sewer from the High Street Pumping Station (which deals with the eastern part of the district) linking to the main pumping station at Southwick Farm, this scheme to include provision h'l' the future sewerage of Harvest Road area, the Winter Gardens and Sixty Acres areas, and the vacant land to the south which is likely to be incorporated for residential use at the forthcoming Town Planning Review. The scheme will include the provision of three pumping stations to deal with those parts of the area referred to above which fall in the First Phase of the Development Schemes or ])rovision of the Private Street Works Code. Some 95% of the district is covered by main drainage and all but a very few of the residences in this area are connected and the outstanding properties being old and likely to be subject to demolition for minor re- development at an earlv date. No extensions to the main sewer have been carried out during the year except by developers and this to deal with new properties. Rayleigh, like Benfleet, is divided into Eastern and Western areas for sewage disposal purposes. The original drainage system, first brought into use in 1932, with the continued development, proved incapable of coping with the flows in recent years, and since 1960 a comprehensive programme of work in respect of the renewal and enlargement of all the main sewers and the modernisation and enlargement of the two Sewage Disposal Works have been proceeding. In August, 1960, work com- menced on the extension of the Western Area Sewage Disposal Works which discharges effluent into the River Crouch and the new works was substantially completed by 31st December, 1962. Work on the en- largement of the Eastern Area Sewage Disposal Works was commenced in August, 1961, and all the new treatment plant was in operation early in 1963. The provision of the new trunk sewers to serve both Eastern and Western areas has progressed satisfactorily, such that the whole of the Eastern drainage area is now drained by new trunk sewers, whilst in the W’estern drainage area the main trunk sewer leading from London Road to the Sewage Disposal Works was completed during the summer of 1963. The design work for the extension of this sewer towards the centre of the town was generally com])leted by Christmas 1964 and a tender for the carrying out ol tlie work lias been accepted b\' (he Count il suliject to Ministry a])|)royal. 4 he design work on tlie Rawreth Sewerage Schemes is now generally complete and actiuisition for the necessary land for punqung stations is proceeding. Having regard to the continual growth of the Town, further consideration has had to be given to the two$