The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

yETDOPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

T usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works
was held yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens, Mr. J.
Thw
ofu accounts
chair.
The
financial statement was presented, and the principal
heads
were as tollows :—Current accounts in the
Bank of
London, £26,383 15s. ; in the Bank of England,
£15,460 7s. 6d. Deposit accounts in the Bank of England,
£74,000.
Government securities, £87,500 9s, Id. The sums
to be set aside this year for repayment of mortage debts are
£9,268 50. rd'
EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
The following report was brought up from the Thames
Embankment Committee :..
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" Spring-gardens, Sept. 28.
"Your bon. Board, on the 7th of August, having refer.
red to your committee for consideration and report the plans
for the construction of that part of the northern embank-
ment of the river between Waterloo-bridge and the eastern
end of the Temple-gardens, and instructed your solicitor to
report to your committee as to the several properties which
they have considered said plans, and have re-
will be effected by these works, your committee have now to
your superintending architect a report which
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vo
er
dt thatfrom
has been carefully examined by your solicitor with regard
notices to be served for acquiring or otherwise
to the properties referred to, and they have directed the
dealingnecessariYvith those properties. Your committee have also
ascertained that the question with regard to the interest of
the foreshore required for the works has been
and that no impediment now exists to the Board
arranged,
eenCgroed7 in
approving the plans and letting the contract for the works
tinheq
be
question Thames for the Embankment (North) from
Waterloo-bridge
n and your committee therefore recommend that
to the east end of the Temple-gardens,
submitted to the Board by the engineer
on the 7th August
last (No. l 7), approved, and that advertisements be issued
inviting tenders for the execution of the works. All which
your committee beg to submit."
Mr. FREEMAN moved that the Board do receive the
put the motion, which was unanimously
re-
port and sanction the recommendations of the committee. •
THE PILO
agreed
presented the following report on
Glass OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.
(:'lltghienlneeariu drainage works :
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y progress continues, upon the whole, to be
" Spring-gardens, Oct. 1.
ecution of the several sections of the works
main drainage of the metropolis. Messrs.
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Brassey and Co. have now completed about 10k miles of the
intended for the
Middle Level Sewer and its branches, in sizes varying from
4ft by 2ft Bin to 12ft by 9ft Gin.
A junction has been effected
between the works passing under the various private pro-
perties from Wilderness-row to Clerkenwell Sessions-house,
and the sewer, with slight exception, is now complete from
Old Ford up to that point. The Metropolitan Railway has
yet to be crossed at Victoria-street, the design (a single
wrought iron aqueduct), for effecting which object is now
under the consideration of the Board. The works
for the diversion of the Fleet Sewer are progressing as
fast as their nature and the difficulties of the locality and
ground will permit. The main line westward of the Fleet,
passing along Liquorpoid-street, Oxford-street, and other
leading thoroughfares, Is; with the exception of a portion
by Saffron-hill and some minor works, completed. The
works of the Piccadilly branch are also in progress. The
total value of the work executed up to this date is about
£278,000, being £20,000
in excess of my last report.
Rather more than two miles of the Western sewers, of
sizes varying from 3ft 9in to 2ft Sin to 4ft circular,
have been completed by Messrs. Moxon and Co,, at
a probable cost of £32,000, or £6,000 more than at the
date of my last monthly report. The Northern Out-
fall Sower, with the exception of some portion of the
embankment, the parapets of the bridges, and the
apron in the bed of the river, may y be said to be com-
pleted throughout its entire length of 54 miles. The
sewage of the High and Middle Level Sewers has now been
permanently turned into two of the 9-feet sewers, and is
discharged through the tumbling-bay direct into the Thames
near Barking Creek—thus permitting the abandonment of
the temporary measures adopted in July eat for diverting
the sewage from the River Lea. The accomplishment of
these works has facilitated the testing of the third 9-feet
sewer, which has been satisfactory, no leakage being per-
ceptible from either the ironwork or brickwork. The
total cost of the work done by Mr. Furness under the con-
tract is about £630,000—L15,000 being due to the progress
made since presenting my last report. One compartment
of the Northern Outfall Reservoir is completed, and a
second is in a forward state. The foundations of the •
in
re-
mainder are nearly all got in, and the brick piers and walls
are being built thereon. The amount of the work done
under this contract by Mr. Furness is estimated at £BO,OOO
or £17,000 more than last reported. At the Crossness
Pumping Station the engine and boiler houses, reservoir,
culverts, and other works are all advancing. Upwards of
130,000 cobs yards of excavation and 66,000 cube yards of
concrete have been executed, in addition to about 25,000
cubic feat of masonry. 56,000 superficial feet of York
paving have been laid, and 50 penstocks fixed. The v.ilue
of Mr. Webster's works under the contract is about £147,000,
of which .022,000 is due to the work done since my last
report. Upwards of 11 mile of the Southern Low Level
Sewer have been constructed by Mr. Webster, at a cost
of about £17,500, being £23,501 in excess of my last report.
Messrs. Aird and Son have completed a length of nearly
three miles of the Bermondsey branch of the Southern Low
Level Sewer at an estimated cost of £86,000, or £I,OOO more
than last reported. Mr. Pearson is making fair progress
with his contract for the completion of the Southwark new
street, between Great Guildford-street and the Blackfriars-
road. Up to the present date he has completed 1,130 ft.
of the subway, with about 500 ft. in progress, 1,140 ft. of
power 710 ft, of area WA about 1,200tt, of pipe C°4-