[Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1937
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    a Bill embodying what was known as the Pill Mawr scheme. This scheme was also a complete Valley scheme and after sedimenting the sewage at Pill Mawr the effluent was to discharge into the Usk at a point three miles nearer the sea than the discharge of effluent from the Ponthir Scheme. The Usk is tidal for a distance of I3J/2 miles and the suggested point of discharge of the effluent into the Usk is three miles below the junction of the Avon Llwyd with the Usk, and about 7 miles above the Bell Buoy in the Bristol Channel. The Usk is tidal for a distance of I I miles above the point of discharge at Pill Mawr. The position now was that two alternative Bills were being promoted for two rival schemes, each with a different treatment works and outfall. The County Council, acting upon the advice of the County Medical Officer, again entered the field and called a conference of the Local Authorities to try and arrange matters. The proceedings, although frequently difficult, were not without humour. On the 2nd February, 1911, the Local Government Board wrote to the Clerk of the Abersychan Urban Council in reply to a letter received from Messrs. Lees & Co., applying for the Board’s approval under the Borough Funds Act, of 1872, to the promotion by the Abersychan Urban Council of the Avon Llwyd Bill, 1911 (Ponthir Scheme). This letter of the Local Government Board also pointed out (i) that two of the Councils (Blaenavon and Llanfrechfa Upper) were not desirous of joining either of the two schemes, (ii) the provisions of section 279 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and (iii) that under the circum- stances they were not prepared to approve of the promotion of either of the Bills, and suggested that a Conference of the six Local Authorities be convened at which an Engineer of the Board would preside. On the 8th and 9th March, 1911, an Engineering and a Medical Inspector (Mr. A. G. Drury and Dr. L. W. Darra Mair), held a Conference at Pontypool. Their report favoured the Pill Mawr Scheme and which was not the scheme favoured by the County Council. When proceeded with later it was thrown out by the Select Committee of the House of Lords. On the 18th January, 1912, a Local Government Board Inquiry was held for the formation of a Joint Sewerage Board, and on the 28th May, 1912, a Provisional Order was made by which a Joint Board was formed for the whole of the Valley. By Article 15 of that Order an obligation was placed upon the Joint Board to proceed with a scheme for the construction of an intercepting and outfall sewer. The Provisional Order came before Parliament (House of Commons) for confirmation in July, 1912, and a Bill was passed confirming the Order, and on the 25th July it came before the House of Lords, and on the 13th December, 1912, Royal Assent was given to the Confirming Act.
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