[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Witham U.D.C.

  • Witham (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Witham U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEWAGE DISPOSAL. TherG are four major sewage disposal plants in the Urban District, tnr^o iacr ar° , I n mv- TT-viVinvn th s+.r-i rvfc sewase works of which arc owned by the Council. . . . r> T'T ■ L 1 ( sorvo the communities of Vfitham, Silver End and Rivenhall. The fourth works, se^vc the communities ox wj.wid.ui5 which original] y served Rivonhall Aerodrome and latterly the camp fo. displaced persons, has now passed into private hands. UITHAH SEWAG?; J >RKS. as the -vy-r'ioad on the plant, previously reported, continued to incroc.se during the year, it was decided to inoror.se the capacity of the o.f.uen L-oon from 900 000 Callons to 1,400,000 Ballons, and this was don<e in August. At°the same time the flow pattern through the lagoon wan improved, to reduce short circuiting and thus improve retention# Burin, the year and a half which the lagoon had operated prior to this extension”0it hi consistently improved the quality of the= humus tank effluent to very high standard, except for two snort periods, occurroa & gasons, when sudden excessive growth of diffuse groan aig standard analytical procedures, for high figures for s These periods were followed each time by heavy growths ot To noon the presence of which soon cleared the algal growth analytical high quality of the effluents. Since enlargement ■ i Tnrjrjon. has continued to give impressive results. It is no exa^ger^ 10 stat0Cthat without it the sewage works could not have coped with dove opnen *4- S L ao z::r 1 ng r. casens, respeusiiio, on s' oxygen dem-nd i crustacea in rjQ and restorer the the lagoon he LS CO date. Reliance had again to he placed on the deodorizer system to offset the a_vn xinff-i oUitv erected by the other main overload proolem - slue.-, V felg;t Ah deodoint effectively counteracted the offensive odours except fn f Sw'occasions whonicidcLes nearest to the works had reason to complain. To deal with the overload and with anticipated rapid development, the Council1 ^Consulting Engineers wore instructed to prepare a t- stage extensxon scheme for the sewage works, to cope with a future population ^gl’^t'to hoped to submit the scheme for Ministry sanction in time for work _n 1 uopoc. to sud i ■financial veer 1964-65. The scheme would he coupled With to servo the main future development area SILVER END SEWAGE WORKS, This ulcnt continued to function satisfactorily, though overloaded suss «-—{ The Confu ting Enainoers have boon instructed to report on this matter, to on* s s»s;‘s Silver End sewage to Wit ham to be dealt wit.n Qj ^urwu