HH62/2/LINLIT/17

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No. 43. Hopetoun or Niddry Oil Works and Bings.
- Dirty water pumped on to bings.
Surface drainage and bings soakage
partly flow into a disused pit, and partly
go into Ecclesmachan Burn.

No. 44. Broxburn Oil Works and Bings. - Outside
surface drainage and bing soakage are
here apparently the only noxious in-
gredients escaping.

No. 45. East Calder sewage.

No. 46. Hopetoun 'Rows' or Niddry sewage.

No. 47. Camps Limestone Quarries. - From these
quarries a great quantity of water is
pumped. It contains a large amount of
mineral matters in suspension when work-
ing operations are being carried on, but
comes out perfectly clear on Sundays,
when no men are at work below.

No. 48. Kirkliston Village sewage.

From the above, it will be noticed that Nos. 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 are situated in Lanarkshire;
Nos. 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 28, 31, 32,
33, 36, 37, 42, 43, 44, 46, and 48 in West Lothian;
and Nos. 14, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 35, 38,
39, 40, 41, 45, and 47 in Mid-Lothian.

Further, it will be seen that all the pollutions come
under one of five classes, namely:-
1. Sewage.
2. The washing of coal dross.
3. Limestone mining.
4. The manufacture of paraffin oil.
5. Ironstone mining.

These I shall now discuss in their order.