East London Waterworks Company

East London Waterworks Company

The East London Waterworks Company was one of eight private water companies in London absorbed by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.

The company was founded by Act of Parliament in 1806, and in 1845 the limits of supply were described as "all those portions of the Metropolis, and its suburbs, which lie to the east of the city, Shoreditch, the Kingsland Road, and Dalston; extending their mains even across the river Lea into Essex, as far as West Ham."Joseph Fletcher, "Historical and Statistical Account of the present System of Supplying the Metropolis with Water", Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 8, No. 2. (June, 1845)]

The water supplied by the company was taken from the Lea, with waterworks on convert|30|acre|km2|2 of land at Old Ford. The company also acquired existing waterworks at Shadwell (dating from 1660) Lea Bridge (pre 1767) and West Ham (1743). Although the legislation that established the London water companies intended that they would compete for customers, in 1815 the East London company drew up a legal agreement with the New River Company defining a boundary between their areas of supply.

In 1829, the source of water was moved further up river to Lea Bridge as a result of pollution caused by population growth. In 1770, the Hackney Cut, had been built across Hackney Marshes to avoid a convert|2|mi|km|1 meander of the natural river course; clean water was now abstracted from the natural channel to a new reservoir at Old Ford. [ [http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/eastlondon_waterworks.html "East London Waterworks Company, Brief history during the Snow era, 1813 - 1858"] (UCLA Epidemiology), accessed October 1 2007] In 1830 the company gained a lease on the existing reservoir at Clapton. This was replaced by a new reservoir at Stamford Hill in 1891. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22710#s2 "Hackney: Public services", A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 108-15] (British History Online) accessed October 1 2007]

In 1841 the company supplied 36,916 houses. By 1903 this figure had risen to 223,891 houses, with the area of supply having a population of 1,482,156. [Percy Ashley, "The Water, Gas, and Electric Light Supply of London", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 27, Municipal Ownership and Municipal Franchises. (January, 1906), pp. 20-36.]

The Metropolis Water Act 1902 amalgamated the eight private water companies into the Metropolitan Water Board, whose members were chosen by the various local authorities of the metropolitan area.

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