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The Fleetwood Sewage Outfalls. 



The whole of the Fleetwood sewage was formerly 

 discharged into the Wyre at various points between the 

 docks and ferry, through separate outfall sewers, and it 

 is these that are shown on the chart published by the 

 R-oyal Commission on Sewage Disposal. At the present 

 time the untreated sewage of the Urban District (the 

 population of which in 1909 was estimated at 15,000) 

 is intercepted by a sewer which runs westwards towards 

 the Rossall shore, and discharges through an 18-inch 

 outfall sewer near Rossall Landmark. There is a storm 

 overflow near the pumping station on the Hossall side, 

 and another storm overflow discharges into Fleetwood 

 Harbour. There are two very small sewers near the 

 Knottend Ferry. The Wyre also receives the untreated 

 sewage from Poulton-le-Fylde from an outfall dis- 

 charging on the West side of the Estuary near Skippool 

 Marsh ; and a small sewer discharges on the East side, 

 about half a mile above Wardley's Hotel near the brook 

 called Peg's Pool. 



In addition to these outfalls there are drains 

 conveying effluents from (1) a fish oil works, (2) a fish 

 curing house, and (3) a fish meal works, all of which 

 factories are situated on the side of the Estuary near 

 the docks. These drains are 6-inch pipes about 100 

 to about 300 yards long. They discharge on the beach 

 well above the level of low water of ordinary tides, and 

 the effluents reach the channel through little brooks, and 

 flow right over the mussel beds, between Preesall and the 

 docks. There is also a small drain- from an ice factory, 

 opening into the harbour. 



It will be gathered from the foregoing description, 

 and from the sketch chart, that the conditions in the 

 Wyre Estuary, as regards liability of sewage contamina- 



