Ebbw Vale Water Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. lxxxv |
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5.] Ebbw Vale Water Act, 1913. [Ch. lxxxv.]
CHAPTER lxxxv.
An Act to authorise the urban district council ot Ebbw
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Vale to construct additional waterworks and for other
purposes. [15th August 1913.]
W
HEREAS the urban district of Ebbw Vale in the County
of Monmouth is under the management and control of the
Ebbw Vale Urban District Council (in this Act referred to as
"the Council"):
And whereas the Council supply water within the said urban
district and the adjoining places included within their limits of
supply and to the Nantyglo Urban District by agreement with
the Nantyglo Urban District Council in pursuance of powers in
that behalf contained in the following Orders and Act (that is
to say):—
An Order of the Local Government Board confirmed by the
Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirma-
tion (Abingdon &c.) Act 1875;
An Order of the Local Government Board confirmed by the
Local Government Board's Provisional Orders' Confirma-
tion (Abergavenny &c.) Act 1880;"
The Ebbw Vale Water Act 1904:
And whereas for the purpose of obtaining a new supply of
water the Council acting under powers conferred upon them
by the Ebbw Vale Water Act 1904 have constructed a reservoir
known as the Carno Reservoir by erecting a dam across the
River Ebbw:
And whereas the quantity of water which the Council are
enabled to take from the River Ebbw by means of the reservoir
authorised by the Ebbw Vale Water Act 1904 is inadequate to
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1913. meet the requirements of the Council and for the purpose of
increasing the said quantity they have in pursuance of general
powers in that behalf contained in section 6 of the Ebbw Vale
Water Act 1904 driven an adit into the Llangattock Mountain
in the line and level shown on the deposited plans and sec-
tions of a portion of the aqueduct "Work No. 2 authorised by
this Act:
And whereas the Council have expended upon the making
of the said adit the sum of forty-three thousand two hundred
and twenty-four pounds of which an amount of twenty-six
thousand four hundred pounds was provided out of moneys
borrowed by the Council under the authority of section 37 (c)
of the Ebbw Vale Water Act 1904 for the extension and
improvement of their waterworks undertaking and is repayable
within fifty years from the date of borrowing the same and an
amount of fourteen thousand two hundred pounds was provided
out of further moneys borrowed under the sanction of the Local
Government Board:
And whereas the Local Government Board in giving their
sanction to the borrowing of the sum of fourteen thousand two
hundred pounds for the purposes of the said adit directed that
the same should be repaid within a period of five years from
the date of borrowing and the extension of that period was
made contingent upon the Council extending the said adit under
the authority of Parliament and thereby obtaining an additional
supply 'of water from the adjoining watershed:
And whereas it is expedient that powers to construct the
said adit should be conferred upon the Council as by this Act
provided and that the Council should be authorised to extend
the said adit as part-rrf the aqueduct Work No. 2 and to
take water thereby from the Claisfer stream in the parish of
Llangynidr:
And whereas the reservoir herein-after described forming
part of the works authorised by this Act will be situate on the
Claisfer stream and below the level of the said adit and will
not by reason of its position be available for the supply of
water within the Council's limits of supply but only for the
purpose of regulating the flow of water in the Claisfer stream
and will thereby provide compensation for the water intended
to be abstracted by the Council:
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And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Council A.l). 1913.
for the purchase of lands and for the execution of works by
this Act authorised and such estimates are as follows:—
For the purchase of lands and easements and for the
construction of the waterworks by this Act authorised
including certain moneys already expended by the Council
in constructing the adit which is intended to form part
of the aqueduct Work No. 2 (that is to say):—
Expenditure under authority of section £
37 (c) of the Act of 1904 - - 26,400
Expenditure sanctioned by the Local Gov-
ernment Board .... 14,200
Eurther expenditure - - - 2,624
Estimated further expenditure - - 77,276
£120,500
Eor the completion of the Carno Reservoir
and the works connected therewith autho-
rised by the Ebbw Vale Water Act 1904
the sum of £3,211
And whereas the several works included in such estimates
are permanent works and it is expedient that the cost thereof
should be spread over a term of years :
And whereas it is expedient to extend the period allowed
by the Local Government Board for the repayment of the said
sum of fourteen thousand two hundred pounds :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works authorised by this Act and plans of the lands
required or which may be taken or used for the purposes of
this Act with a book of reference to such plans containing the
names of the owners or reputed owners and lessees or reputed
lessees and occupiers of those lands were duly deposited with
the clerks of the peace for the counties of Brecknock and
Monmouth which plans sections and book of reference are in
this Act respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections
and book of reference:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act the requirements of the Borough Eunds Acts 1872
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