Lee Purification Act 1886
WHEREAS the Lee Conservancy Act 1868—upon recital that a large proportion of the water supplied to the metropolis is drawn from the Lee and the preservation of the purity of the water of the Lee and its tributaries is an object of great public and local importance—established the Lee Conservancy Board for the purpose of (among other things) preserving and maintaining at all times as far as may be the purity of the water of the Lee and its tributaries:
And whereas section 92 of that Act empowe...