276 FORESTS, WOODS, AND TREES 
The Pittenweem and the Anstruthers Joint Waterworks 
obtain their water supply from a catchment area of 1070 
acres, situated on Kellie Law, Carnbee Law, and the ridge 
of lower ground eastward, between 177 and 500 feet eleva- 
tion. The Committee own only the sites of the reservoirs 
on the gathering ground, which is practically treeless and 
mainly arable. It includes Gordonshall farm and Carnbee 
village and farm, the sewage of which is carried off in a pipe 
system and falls into the main burn below the waterworks. 
St. Andrews obtains its water supply from three catch- 
ment areas, which are situated in Cameron parish, at no 
great elevation above sea-level. The Burgh Surveyor has 
supplied me with the following particulars : 
Catchment Area. Acres. Alege in Reteie es Habitations. 
Cairnsmill ‘ b 906 250-450 5 19 
Lambieletham . ae 550 350-500 3 14 
Cameron . , i 1450 470-650 5 19 
The total area, 2906 acres, which is partly arable and 
partly under pasture, has thus no less than 13 farm-stead- 
ings and 52 habitations upon it. The means taken to 
prevent pollution of the water are: fencing of the streams 
and reservoirs ; providing water-troughs for stock; separate 
drainage for farms into septic tanks and cesspools ; sedimen- 
tation in the reservoirs, and careful filtration. The Council 
have merely water rights over the greater part of the area, 
the only portion owned being 180 acres at Cameron, 100 
acres of which are under water, the remaining 80 acres 
being almost fully planted with trees. See W. Watson, in 
Proc. Inc. Assoc. Municipal and County Engineers, vol. 33, 
pp. 239-242 (1907). 
Newburgh obtains its water supply from Loch Mill, with 
a gathering ground of 900 acres, at about 700 feet eleva- 
tion, without habitations or farmsteads, and comprising 500 
