Exeter Sewage Works
1871 'recommend the Local Board to grant a lease to the City of Exeter Sewage Co, of the sewage of Exeter'[1]
1893 Estimate for Exeter Sewage Works includes costs for Acquisition and Preparation of Land, Purchase Price of Countess Weir Mills, Works at Duck's Marsh, Bridge at St. James Leat and a Main Intercepting Sewer.[2]
1896 Report on recent experiments in sewage treatment at Exeter, by Donald Cameron, City Surveyor[3]
1901 'For some months the City Council has had employees engaged on drainage work at the Weir Fields. The men have been employed in laying pipes from the new sewage works to Duck's Marsh, where the sewage water after it has left the sewage works will be taken and allowed to run over the field. The excavators in the Weir Fields have had to go over 20 feet in depth.'[4]
1909 'Exeter's sewage disposal works at Belle Isle, and also the sewage farm and works at Heavitree'[5]
1932 'A tender of Messrs. H. Arnold and Son, Doncaster and Leeds, amounting to £76,236 was accepted in connexion with sewage disposal works Exminster'[6]
1934 'Sanction has been received for the work of installing new sludge digestive tanks at the Countess Wear sewage works of the Exeter City Council to be proceeded with, and work is being commenced at once.'[7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Western Times - Friday 19 May 1871
- ↑ Western Times - Tuesday 09 May 1893
- ↑ Engineering 1896/08/21
- ↑ Western Times - Tuesday 19 February 1901
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 12 February 1909
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 10 February 1932
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 27 July 1934