Mon 23 Oct 1911
To Wheatenhurst Rural District Council (R E Stuart)
Stroud
The Committee have considered your letter. If drainage from Mr Truscott's and Messrs Godsell's property has passed into the ditch to which you refer and thence into the canal it has done so without the Company's consent or authority and cannot possibly be permitted. We have not heard from either party: please inform them that the Company's Bye-law makes it an offence to pollute the canal with sewage or other noxious material with a penalty of £5: for each offence. The Company will clear the ditch at Mr Truscott's and Messrs Godsell's expense (approximately £1). This must not happen again and they must dispose of their sewage without letting it go on any part of the Company's property.
