Report of Mr Lovick, Assistant Surveyor, on flushing operations : 8th February, 1849.

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.
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[1849]
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Credit: Report of Mr Lovick, Assistant Surveyor, on flushing operations : 8th February, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rough Proof.] pi r t v o |j o J it a n &0U10V0. REPORT of Mr Lovick, Assistant-Surveyor, on Flushing Operations. Sewers' Office, February 8, 1849. I beg to submit a Report on the Contract Flushing Operations in the several Districts of the Metropolitan Sewers, as follows:— Since the commencement of the contract system in September last, in accord¬ ance with the direction of the Commission just expired, the flushing operations have been extended to the undermentioned districts, viz., the Counter’s Creek, Ranelagh? Western Division of Westminster Sewers, Eastern Division of Westminster Sewers, Holborn and Finsbury, Spitalfields and Hackney Brook, Lower Wapping, Poplar, Surrey and Kent, embracing, with few exceptions, nearly the whole of the active jurisdiction of the Commission, and containing about 1,924,196 feet lineal, or 364£ miles nearly, of sewers. Of these upwards of 1,531,260 feet, or 290 miles,* embra¬ cing the whole of the Holborn and Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Surrey and Kent, the Eastern and portions of the Western Divisions of the Westminster Sewers, the Counter’s Creek, Ranelagh, and Poplar Districts, are now under contract, partly for the removal of existing, partly for the prevention of future accumulations. From these (excluding the Holborn and Finsbury Districts) about 79,483 cube yards of deposit have been removed from the open and covered sewers : this, with few excep¬ tions, has been sent into the River Thames, at a cost of 2,209/., or at the rate of seven- pence nearly per cube yard of deposit removed. With the addition to this of the cost of flushing apparatus, the rate of charge will not exceed eightpence per cube yard. The cost of inspection during the whole period is 148/., or at the rate of about six and a half per cent, on the cost of the work done, or a charge of less than one halfpenny on each cube yard of deposit removed: the rate of cost with this addition, including also every other expense, will therefore be about eightpence halfpenny. * These measurements are partly from the plans, partly from actual measurements in the sewers.