[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Llandovery Borough.

  • Llandovery (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Llandovery Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r * Treatment of Supply. * The water is chlorinated by means of a drip feed of a solution of Ohli>ros and water into the service reservoir. The acidic and corrosive property of.the water is treated by means of a drip feed of a solution of Sodium Carbonate- and Sodium Silicate into the. service reservoir. The-installation of a lime saturation plant is being considered as a substitute to the above treatment. The Supply. * • . The quality is satisfactory, but a hardness of 2° to 3° would provide added protection to the water fittings in the borough, The quantity of water available when the Tonn Borehole is fully operative with a standby pumping unit in a second borehole will be enough for the future need of the Borough of Llandovery. * Sewerage and Drainage, The Borough has no main Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Scheme. A temporary off site sewerage plant composed of a septic tank and irrigation furrows received the sewage of 37 Council Houses, 45 premises discharge their sewage into the culverted Bawddwr Stream passing through the centre of -the town. 315 premises have drainage system to cesspools which are nothing more than soakaways sunk 'into the gravel subsoil. The Council have not undertaken to empty cesspools. The difficulty arrisihg 'in the disposal of the contents makes it impra cticable to enforce the construction of water tight cesspools. 152 rema idling' dwellings have the ’cons'ervency system made up of pail clo'se'ts, e'a'rth closets and priveys. 72 have priveys. These are cleaned by the occupiers of each premises, the contents being buried in back gardens* Sullage water is conveyed by open channels to street gutters, and to soakaways in gardens. The roa d surface water discharges into the culverced Bawddwr Stream. New cesspools and drainage systems were construe ted v.Ijo drain and receive the sewage of 5 private dwellings. The new sewer was laid to drain a Council House Site of .H Houses discharging into the existing temporary off site sewerage plant. A Main Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Scheme ]pas been prepared for the Town of Llandovery, for the construction of which, a grant has been accepted from the Ministry of Housing and Local G-overnment and the Carmarthenshire County Council. As the delivery of: come of the essential materials cannot be obtained for between 24 to 30 months, it is respectfully submitted that priority should be given to the delivery of these materials for this proposed scheme, owing to the extreme nuisance caused by the emptying of cesspools and priveys into domestic gardens, the discharge of enillage water on to the roads, and also the . discharging of the culverted Bawddwr stream into the River Bran,'a tributary of the Towy, nuisences which cannot be remedied except by the. construction of a main sower and sewage disposal plant, and so do away with the present unsatisfactory sanitation and disposal of faecal matter, which is prejudicial to the health of the- neighbourhood and may prove dangerous in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease.