Collection MCC/CL/L/WMD - CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: WEST MIDDLESEX DRAINAGE

10.33 linear metres

MCC/CL/L/WMD 1929-1965 Collection 10.33 linear metres MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

The phenomenal growth of population in Middlesex from early 1920s brought problems of peculiar difficulty in sewage disposal. These were partly offset by the district councils extending their local purification works but it was clear that the problem could best be met by co-ordination and centralisation of treatment.

After intensive investigation and report by its consulting engineers, under the guidance of John Duncan Watson, the County Council with difficulty secured one of the last Unemployment Grants and obtained powers to construct and operate a system of trunk sewers, with sewage purification and sludge disposal works, to serve Western Middlesex. The undertaking came into operation in 1935-36 and included the Mogden works, then the largest and most modern full-treatment plant in the world.

The West Middlesex undertaking served 16 local authorities covering an area of 171 square miles and a population of 1, 360, 000. 70 miles of trunk sewers carried 70,000,000 gallons of sewage a day.

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage scheme, 1929-1965.

MCC/CL/L/WMD-1: General

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Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.
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See also MCC/CL/WMD.

For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. April to June 2009 Clerk's Department , Middlesex County Council MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council Sewers Waste treatment Drainage Water resources Sewerage Environmental engineering Sanitation Waste disposal Sewage disposal London England UK Western Europe Middlesex Europe

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage scheme, 1929-1965.

MCC/CL/L/WMD-1: General

Available for general access.

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

• anglais

• latin

English

See also MCC/CL/WMD.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais