[Report 1938] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1938
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    assistance towards the cost has been made to the County Council, which has consented to make a grant in accordance with the financial conditions which it has applied to such sewerage and water schemes in rural areas. TTiis scheme will make provision for an adequate water supply to the proposed new school at Cwmyoy. Chepstow Rural District Council obtains supplies from several sources. 1 he water supply from the Severn Tunnel to Caldicot and the surrounding district has now been discontinued and the new supply is by means of service mains from the Chepstow Water Board. Several other schemes for the supply of water have also been inaugurated. Portions of the Magor and St. Mellons Rural District receive water from the Newport Corporation supplies. The Monmouth Rural District Council have carried out extensive improve- ments to the water supply to Raglan and the scheme has proved of great value to the district. A scheme has also been prepared by the Council for the pro- vision of an adequate water supply to the village of Trelleck and the greater part of the United Parish of Trelleck. The scheme has been submitted to the Minister of Health and a local enquiry held by one of the Ministry of Health engineering inspectors. The cost is expected to be somewhere in the region of £18,000. Generally, the Rural District Councils pay strict attention to the water supplies of their districts. This attention is showing itself in the improved bacteriological condition of the supplies. Samples of water are periodically taken for analysis. Arrangements are made with the Laboratory by the District Sanitary Inspectors, and the samples are examined by the County Pathologist. Samples are also collected by the County Sanitary Inspector. Water supplies found to be polluted are investigated and usually the cause of pollution is removed. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE. Detailed: information regarding sewage disposal schemes in the County will be found in the Appendices to the Annual Report for the year 1937. The Constituent Authorities of the Rhymney Valley Sewerage Board are : Caerphilly and Geliygaer Urban District Councils in the County of Glamorgan; and Rhymney, Bedwellty and Bedwas and Machen Urban District Councils in the County of Monmouth. The Board deals with the sewage of the Constituent Authorities in the Rhymney Valley and also deals with the sewage of a portion of the Parish of Van in the area of the Cardiff Rural District Council, and with the sewage from a portion of the Parishes of 1 .ower Machen in the area of the Magor and St. Mellons Rural District Council. The Main Trunk Sewer of the Board extends from Rhymney to the sea Outfall at Peterstone Wentloog with a 2'^ million gallons capacity storage tank at St. Mellons. The whole of the