The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-15 00:00:00

THE GENERAL DRAINAGE.

It won not till after halt•past II that the BA"' pro*
mottled to the mcvtt important Amines' of the day the
awmer to the Loral Government !lewd.

The Town Curio fink read the memorial which had
been not to the Government B oar,!. civinc a history of
the drainage question from tbe Um., of the Duo, the
"'Odic useeting., rnl pointintt out that the health of
the town is very god, that there it not any deposit on
the shores of the II ickwater or Vie Ilarlonr. It was
acrotoptnied by ten wts proving the et•tettnentt.
Mr. Alderman Tlionso hoped that the memorial srotild
have berm supported by the signatures of the lordical torn
of the town He believed the whole would have readily
.1' pito-test it.
The Town CLERK next rend the answer of the Loral
Government Board, as folios. :
" Local Governmrnt 11..4rd,
Whitehall, S.W.,
I.t January, IVA
Sir,—l am directed by the Local Iloovernimmt Board t
s...knowledze the receipt. of toor letter of the 4th ultimo—
and the acc.ompanyin4 repott of Hr. Ilasrkealey, and
other Awitment.t, with rezard to the sewerare and dis-
,,sa t the sewerate of the B or.otth of Weymouth.
The B ord have had Mr. Ilawkealey's report (which
velure only to the .ithe-eldraina re of the Park)
under their consideration ; loot neither this report n
the other document* forwarded with your letter appear
to the Board to show. any aufficient reason why the
',bane! of Sir John Gooie. for pumping end elerifying
the e bole (the sewage, should not he carried out. The
Board. therefore, sen no canes to alter the opinion ex-
pressed in their letter of the 21st of wepteruber. 1875. that
the ...hene so originelly .les gned should In carried out
without lay. They are desirous that th.. Town Council
shed.' adopt this cantle!, sad that an e..tionat,l in detail
of the cot of the necessary Nesters, tanka, and wain
engines for pumping the sewage and .uheoil water,
together with an estimate of the probable working ex-
Pratte* of the scheme, should be submitted to them by
the Town Council.
lam. Sir,
Your obedient Sere sat.
.1. F. ROSTON,
Assistant Secretary."
The Mato' slummed the matter was brought before
them in so formidable • manner that something besides
eorrespondence must he the molt of their meeting to-day.
He out not see how they could deal with it, otherwise
than by dischar.ling into the Harbour. for. .4 to sewage
Irrigation, all such plans had failed. He thought some
influential persons should approach Mr. Harrison, and get
him to recommend some modified plan of discharglng it
through the Harbour, for he did not believe they Macaw,
to the last word.
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Mr. Alderman Titoism% referred to the speech of Dr.
Griffin at the Mayor's dinner, which he afterwards saw
reported, and which stated that the expenditure by the
Town Council bad been • aria one. He asked whether
the mode of disposal bad not been siirceasful, and if it
had not been for the indammatory meeting, at the Music
Nem they would not have been meddled with further by
, the Local Government Board. He was in favour of con-
tinning their present mode, and leaving the Local
Government Baud . alone. He proposed That they
acknowledge courtanualy the letter from the Local
Government Board. and Paitpone its consideration for
wee considerahle time.
Mr. Alderman Buoy naked what powers the Local
Government Board have, in rase the Local Board do not
carry out what they desire,
The Tows CLIME said they rould do the work themselves
aud charge the Local Board with the expense._,
Mr. Alderman ELIOT asked was there SOT rase where
reaistance had been made, and they had adopted such a
course? _ .

.....'ice TOWX CLERK did not know; but the Surveyor said
—ves • hut it was an inland town.
Iir:ROOM felt it would he out of place to allow the
Local Government Board to pre.n on them the work which
it seemed from that letter they were anxious to. Nothing
would, he hoped, be done to awaken unpleasant feelings,
but they should present an unanimous front, and show
the interests of the town are paramount to merythfilit
else. The general idea of the minihers of the Board bad
been that the sewage would he sent into the Harbour in a
solid form, and might appear ebiection•ligy amsishors.
But it was found the sewage was resolved into a liquid,
unsightly appeared on the surface. Again
tide went out of the harbour. it had been
yam. had elapsed
ftaehnsodreduirnhoitththmineigght reach round in front of the town, and he
prejudice' to the lathing: hut three
tines it was first sent into the Harbour. end nothing of
the kind had appeared, in the front, or near the lieplansde ; neverhad the Minds bon linen in • free condition from
nilbn
*gram. ito the Harbour: the idea had been that on the foreshore
s;
he bring thus turn and clean, they gams
ik fipollution—let anyone look and he would
a
would have been men thing, objectional, but during the
of
lint three years, plenty of time had pared to discover
inch, yet everyone would now &Ems them iii no c,"
complaint on that ground Beeryone too, who had
watched the pasoage of sewage into the se s would say it
woo conveyed in a manner not at all injorious. He him-
self had watched the foreshore for • long tiins, end
nothing objectionable apiimmd, and we who live here, and
whose eyes are on the place have far better opportunities
for discivering anything than • gentleman wbojust comes
here for • day. (liean.) The Public health has been coo
,d
there is no epidemic., and we • are all aatnffled
nu deleterious influence has arisen from the drain.
sac Mr. Harrison mked . not for the irrigation
ridiculously small sa to pollution
scheme,; but for the clanfication of the sewage.
But clarification do not remove anything that
may ho in solution ; the polsonots matter remains
the same on before any clarification proems. ft has been
to health, while even
mid the effluent water I. to little In comparison with the
large body of water into which it falls, that it would be
lust; end of course it in. . But the elimination sof the
would remain unchanged by any chemical action. The
committee's report otatim ". fat as they have been able to
ascertain, none of the modes tried ---- appears to be effective,
:thfitareidHnacuriarabtotLurr to7lor.endadillebiheit.intiicieiripnousiwn4f.
of
evil.
if
.y,
hot some of them as a partial means of puriamtiop may
In some cases be accented. Only ghat was said on this
matter by the committee called into existence bv the
Local Government Board, but It idm spo_o row.,
tituatt on the sea enest or on a tidal estuarieo may he
idei no nuisanne is
allowed to turn their sewage into the sell, or estuary,
north% rid of sewage may
appended ip the report, not alter He
that recommendation. These gentlemen had intattigated
every rase that mine under their oiwervati
shc....bbe.P2lo...t....heikedth.l.thindaettthai...:ltohLocaifi.,:dndwoließatipst:hrde....t.
arowee.noed
tomve.ru..
ogt
on, and Robert
Ron neon, and Clore &well Read were the names
going to one or two
aces, but through all the country. Were the Local
. then, not to he allowed to continue what they had
bNan carrying out for three years, without producing any
detrimental, and in secordance with that recinarnendo-
lion I When the Board began it was an experiment • but
the exp-rinmat was suoceminL Throwing said. 'alto-
gether the exponae, of erecting • Pumping station what
would be the effect en the town its.llf A Pumping' station and Paraphernalia foe eliminating the solid would
create the nuisance , with doss not now exist, bemuse a-
bridge• cannot be removed without at some times pro-
m:Mg • noxious vapour. No ass knew bettor than the trouble of removing had ansolla from the eve works,
the money spent to avoid them; but occeistonsUr when a
Wirr...him., &wed the smell w mud be pen:mired-
tba
smith worici and the use weeks
thm „in say men, it Would ell be eel Emil: thre

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are without a nularnm now, hut then we should not he.
Rapeetrully. but firmly. tbey ought to approach the
°averment B ward. let them kn..* the reornmend*tion
of their own enteral ttee it on, the Loml Born, feel Inand
to attend tO. and ask that a courn simile*. to i.,h it r,,,,„0.
men lel shall he continueil, an I the Basal not called, It
invoive theinstlyea in an ...Myr which peutililv m ty and
prola*iity mixti t, be as great a nal. ince Ap, ,fly 1,1.
Finally. it w.ai Pr01”644 iiv Mr. Ronna*—t* ti.
Board cansidern that tbe evoiti on of work* for the purply,
of sewage irrigation or clarification would he highly
injurious to the interests of she tow, ,That pi•
ervrienm g•ined by pasting the sewersze into the tide-
way below low water moth fur more than two you*
without steatites any Mil...nee. or prodoeins any evil
Infloenoe whatever, louts them to ileum to fallow out the
recnioniendation of the e tastnittim appoint., I by sb.
President of the kreal Government Board. dated Slet
July, ISM—. That towns situata on the sea clad or on
tilal eatuaries may he allowed to turn their seam 4, i„to
the sea, or estuary, below the line of low wat-r, pnivided
no nuiaances i* caused. and that sorb m vie ef getting rid
of mews may be allowed and justified on the ace, of
economy. "
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rohketlher ridieeigir„Fkt ft
rnß°.fiati73lliTifianiefti.l:ll',Elri:7,tltthi,e,e't:utial4
Mr. Dime's. beinS appealed to. uid—We simply went
to be left aline.
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Mr. Rabertinee Mayoralty tea* fo- a *pinnai pintas,* ;
tint lamp.° had not i*ana carried out_ There could he
no differenee of opinion that what had laten stilts i aes
',Weedy true i an lite hiiprl it woold be receive I hy the
Ctihlia7".Worn".MhnirtP. 13°'111"Trrrilon't h,innitv;basnecele‘l,4irrhi:dcr: 7o'utha,iin:iilliaamllrhijoultrsititt;
persona were a mile od, yet. when the/ wini net trims
there, it prodimo I nausea. That remark applied also to
S althea*, whore the very evil *qt. prolueed which we
were wishing to avoid. He thought they ought to bring
tt e argument to hear by mote engineer or other person
up in the officers of the Local Biard.
Hi% Rouges wan willing to let hi* resubition drop, and
that the Tovnt Clerk lie inatructed ta aelrozowledge the
rennet of the latter from the Government It-tart
no Town Cum( ”iil that would he toot mimic-I.e. If
the Btard wished to pursue their present plan, let the
Government Board alone.
The Boar I ultim ably resolved to p.m Ilr. Rabelais
resolution hut not, at present, to send it to the Govern-
ment Boar].
This concluded the famine..