Reference
LHE254
Title
Memorandum:
Date free text
c.1858-9
Production date
From: 1858 To: 1859
Scope and Content
Re: Luton Local Board of Health (probably prepared by Frederick Brown) John Shaw Leigh obtained injunction, Luton Board of Health restraining it from polluting River Lea by pumping sewage into it.Board advertise for plans to purify sewage & pump it back above Mill. Plan accepted by both Local & Central Board, wont be carried out if Croydon decision that Miller has no legal claim
on water, none of town drains at moment connected with intercepting sewers, nevertheless large quantity of water for sometime past has flown through it into Tanks & from tanks to Covered culvert into Mill waste water stream by side of Marsletts to injury of Mill.
After part of this water percolates into intercepting sewer & rises from natural springs, which previously passed under the Bed of the main River (called the Mill Head) into a side stream, waste of which, is brought by an underground drain to the front of the water wheel & their discharged on the wheel contributing material power drains under tanks which also discharge in covered culvert & from there to waste water stream, portion of water actually taken from main River, crossed at several points with iron pipes & bed broken
without Leigh or Browns consent. Board plans for flushing intercepting sewer with water from surface spring diverted from River.
When Town drains connected to intercepting sewers will lose further power, permission to lower bed of stream would never had been granted if thought to be permanent, private stream running through private grounds & consent was not given in writing as
demanded by Act, was allowed to help construction of sewage works. R M Brown objected to Board interfering with the springs & requested them to pump the water back into the river above Mill, Board replied by disputing right to it, undated.Marked Red No 9
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