[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1948
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    various stages of negotiatiou and progress, seLemes having made greatest advancement in the Abergavenny and Pontypool Kural Districts. SEWERAGE. The Rhymney and Western Valleys of the County are served by two main tiunk sewers, each of which discharges into the sea. The Constituent Authorities of the Rhymney Valley Sewerage Board are Caerphilly and Cialligaer Urban District Councils in the County of (flamorgan, 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, a portion of the Parish of Van in the Cardiff Rural District Council of Glamorgan and a portion of the Parish of Lower Machen in the Magor and St. Mellons Rural District of Monmouthshire. The Western Valleys (Mon.) Sewerage Board deals with the sewage of Abercarn, Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, Mnynddislwyn, Nantyglo and Blaina, Risca and Tredegar Urban Districts, and portions of Magor and St. Mellons Rural District. It is pleasing to be able to record that at long last the construction of a main trunk sewer for the Eastern \ alley has now begun. These are woiks of paramount importance to the Valley. Several smaller sewerage schemes are in operation in the rural areas and townships, and generally perform satisfactorily their functions. Individual schemes for separate houses, however, are frequently the cause of recurring nuisances. RURAL WATER SUPPUES AND SEWERAGE ACT, 1944. This Act places at the disposal of the Minister of Health a sum of £15,000,000 to assist schemes executed after the war for the provision or improvement of water supply and for the provision of sewerage facilities in rural localities in England and Wales. The County Council are also required to contribute towards the cost of such schemes, and provision is made in the Act for consultation by local authorities with the County Council before submitting schemes to the Minister. Details of schemes ranking for grant under this Act have been received from rural district councils in the) County, and have been considered by a Technical Sub-Committee. Recommendations for approval by the Minister have been forwarded by the County Council, and local enquiries have been held in some instances. A further important provision of the Act is the amendment of Section III of the Public Health Act 193G by making it obligatory u])on local authorities.