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of the village. The burn is a receptacle for ashes and other house
refuse. It was nearly dry last summer; and (2) two wells at the
public school, very badly situated and open to surface washings
from roads and manured gardens, and to pollution by the school
children. The one well is supplied from the overflow of the other,
by means of an iron connecting pipe.
In Queenzieburn the water is at present derived from old pit
workings. It is led into pillar wells in the village by 4-in, iron
pipes. The supply is said to be abundant, but to be too hard for
some purposes, and another source for domestic use is at present,
I believe, under consideration by Messrs. Baird & Co.

DRAINAGE.

Special Drainage Districts. - Two special Districts have
been formed (1) Bannockburn, and (2) Causewayhead. They are
coterminous with the corresponding Water Supply Districts. But
in Bannockburn no special scheme has been carried out and no
assessment imposed.
The Causewayhead drainage scheme consists of a system of
drains and a main sewer discharging into the Forth. A difficulty
recently occurred in connection with certain new buildings within
the special District, whose level is such that they cannot be con-
nected with the existing outlet, and which at the same time are
shut off from the Forth by the railway embankment. The matter
is in charge of a special committee, and a new section of drain is to
be laid down on the road and carried through the embankment,
and thence through agricultural land to the Forth.
In Buchlyvie there is a 9-inch glazed and jointed earthenware
pipe, which receives the drainage of the greater part of the village.
The pipe is unventilated. The drain connects with Buchlyvie
burn at the foot of the village, and this burn enters the Forth.
At the upper end of the village the sewage enters Ballochneck burn,
which afterwards flows for about 80 yards along the roadside.
This burn joins the other and enters the Forth.
Kippen. - A sewer pipe runs through the main street of the
village and connects with an adjoining burn. It receives surface
water from the roads and slop water from the houses, both by
means of the road channels. The channels vary in structure, some

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being of stone and some merely road cuttings. The sewer pipe
discharges into Cavieston burn which enters the Forth.
Gargunnock. - There is no system of drainage. The road channels
enter a burn, having previously received some part of the slop
water. Part of it, however, is thrown on the gardens at the backs
of the houses.
Cambuskenneth Abbey seems well drained. There being a good
water supply, several of the houses have water-closets and sinks,
which, along with the road water, are conveyed by a short drain
into the Forth.
Cambusbarron. - The drainage here is not satisfactory. Slop
and surface water discharge by badly constructed open channels,
or by pipes led through private ground, into a burn which flows
through the north end of the village, and is very offensive in warm,
dry weather. The burn crosses underneath the Dumbarton Road,
and ultimately empties into the Forth. The smell in summer is
very bad at the point where it crosses the road.
Whins of Milton. - There is no underground drainage. The
surface channels towards the south end of the village, as already
mentioned, receive slop water and empty into the mill lade, just
above the part from which drinking water is taken. At the
north end the surface channel enters a covered conduit, which
discharges into the Stirling burgh drainage system.
Bannockburn. - Some drains have been laid by private owners, but
the most of the houses use the street channels for disposal of slop water.
These receive road water and slop water from sinks, &c., and enter,
some into the Bannock burn, and others into other neighbouring
streams. But there is not any complete or satisfactory system of
drainage for the village as a whole. The back row especially is
in want of drainage, and its surface channel is in bad condition.
Bonnybridge. - A glazed and jointed fireclay pipe, laid along the
main street of the village, conveys the slop and surface water into
the Bonny Water. Some of the houses are connected with the
main sewer by underground drains, and others merely use the
road channels.
Haggs District. - There is no complete drainage system; open
channels take road washings &c., into the nearest field-ditches, or
streams.
At Haggs village surface channels of whinstone have recently

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