HH62/1/M-LOTH/16

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No 39. Midcalder sewage. - Amount considerable.
No. 40. Oakbank Oil Works and Bings. - Over
200,000 gallons of water (figures sup-
plied me by the Company), strongly
tainted with all the usual pollutions of
such works, are filtered through an old
bing, and pass into the Linnhouse Burn
daily.
No. 41. Oakbank 'Rows' sewage.
No. 42. Broxburn Town Sewage. - This is an
important pollution.
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 matter 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;

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