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· The two Nullahs rising for the most part in purely Colonial areas, as just explained, have always been jealously protected by the Colonial Government from pollution by Cultivation.

Nowhere have any Gardens ever been allowed in their vicinity, and on this point complaint has been made by the Military Authorities. This fact should re-assure the Commanding Royal Engineer that the same precautions which have been accepted and jealously enforced without intermission for the past twenty years would be continued after the transfer was recognized by the present Military Authorities. Moreover, the steepness and rocky nature of these gathering grounds reduce to a minimum any danger from this Source.

(c) Risk of Pollution from people bathing or washing above the Tanks.

The change of Ownership of the ground would in no way affect the purity of the water from the above causes, as the flying Sentries at present employed to warn ... people ... will be continued as heretofore. The Colonial Government has never in any way placed any impediment in the way of these sentries; on the contrary, the Police have always been willing and ready to lend them every assistance in their power. Nor will the opening of the new road be likely to increase the risk of bathing or washing in the water supply, for it so happens that in regard to these streams, the flying sentry can as easily detect the presence of ten men as one, the whole of the drainage below the 500-foot contour being under his view at the same Coup d'oeil.

(D) Risk of Pollution from House Sewage

Immediately after the completion of the new road past the Magazine, it is proposed to parcel out the land into building lots, but as there are no available sites for residences above the level of either the Albany Tank or Magazine Tank, the contamination of their contents by house Sewage is a physical impossibility. The Albany Tank is situated one hundred and eighty-eight feet above the level of the new road along the ...

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Sources · The two Nullahs rising for the most part in purely Colonial areas, as just explained, have always been jealously protected by the Colonial Government from pollution by Cultivation. Nowhere have any Gardens ever been allowed in their vicinity, and on this point complaint has been made by the Military Authorities. This fact should re-assure the Commanding Royal Engineer that the same precautions which have been accepted and jealously enforced without intermission for the past twenty years would be continued after the transfer was recognized by the present Military Authorities. Moreover, the steepness and rocky nature of these gathering grounds reduce to a minimum any danger from this Source. (c) Risk of Pollution from people bathing or washing above the Tanks. The change of Ownership of the ground would in no way affect the purity of the water from the above causes, as the flying Sentries at present employed to warn ... people ... will be continued as heretofore. The Colonial Government has never in any way placed any impediment in the way of these sentries; on the contrary, the Police have always been willing and ready to lend them every assistance in their power. Nor will the opening of the new road be likely to increase the risk of bathing or washing in the water supply, for it so happens that in regard to these streams, the flying sentry can as easily detect the presence of ten men as one, the whole of the drainage below the 500-foot contour being under his view at the same Coup d'oeil. (D) Risk of Pollution from House Sewage Immediately after the completion of the new road past the Magazine, it is proposed to parcel out the land into building lots, but as there are no available sites for residences above the level of either the Albany Tank or Magazine Tank, the contamination of their contents by house Sewage is a physical impossibility. The Albany Tank is situated one hundred and eighty-eight feet above the level of the new road along the ... Page 429
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