The drainage of villages / by William Spinks.

  • Spinks, William.
Date:
[1895?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The drainage of villages / by William Spinks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (i) Construct any works within their district, or—sub- ject to the provision of the Act as to sewage works without the district of the Local Authority—without their district; and (2) Contract for the use of, purchase, or take on lease, any land, buildings, engines, materials, or appliances, either within or without their district. The other sections deal with regulations to be observed in the maintenance of sewers and the connection of house drains, &c, and I shall only refer to such as are necessary for the present purpose. POLLUTION OF STREAMS. While Local Authorities have the power to construct sewers, they are prohibited from allowing the sewage matter flowing through the sewers to discharge into any stream. Section 3 of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, states, Every person who causes to fall or flow or knowingly per- mits to fall or flow or to be carried into any stream any solid ■or liquid sewage matter shall, subject as in this Act men- tioned, be deemed to have committed an offence against this Act. And then follows the procedure, penalties, &c. In 1893 this section was repealed, and a short Act was passed (56 and 57 Vict, Chap. 31), wherein the section is made to read thus :— Where any sewage matter falls or flows or is carried into any stream after passing through or along a channel which is vested in a Sanitary Authority, the Sani- tary Authority shall, for the purposes of Section 3 of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, be deemed to knowingly permit the sewage matter so to fall, flow, or be carried. Section 7 regulates the use of sewers by manu- facturers for trade effluents.