[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouth Borough.

  • Monmouth (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chippenham Treatment Works The Chippenham treatment works consist of:- (a) Two settling tanks (b) Twelve contact beds (c) Two sludge lagoons These works are sixty years old and out of date and are unable to deal with the sewage in a satisfactory manner. Redbrook Road Works Sewage on east side of Wye gravitates to a position near the opening to the present inverted syphon on the east bank of the River Wye. A pumping station has been constructed on Corporation land behind the Monmouth School pavilion. A pumping main has been laid across the School playing fields, following the line of the old sewer, to the Redbrook Road and along the road to the treatment 'works. The works consist of:- Number Number when Phase 1 all Phases Description complete 2 2 2 4 6 2 4 4 6 12 together with various pumps Detritus Chambers & Screens Settlement Tanks Filter Beds Humus Tanks Sludge Beds and mains at the treatment works. Sewage first goes to the detritus chambers and screens where large solids are screened and passed direct to the sludge drying beds. Sewage passing through the detritus screens goes next to the settlement tanks ‘where