| Description | Mersey and Weaver River Authority:
(1- 13) Finance and General Purposes committee reports: 1964-1974 (including Selection committee from Nov 1967);
(14- 16) Finance and General Purposes, Organisation and Selection commitee minutes: 1964-1970;
(17-25) annual reports: 1966-1974;
(26-33) accounts: 1965-1973;
(27-38) Water Resources committee reports: 1965- 1974;
(39-41) Water Resources committee minutes: 1965-1974;
(42-44) Water Quality committee reports: 1971-1974;
(45) Water Quality committee minutes: 1971-1974;
(46-53) Land Drainage committee reports: 1964-1974;
(54-56) Land Drainage committee minutes: 1965-1974;
(57-61) Pollution Prevention & Fisheries committee reports: 1964-1970;
(62-63) Pollution Prevention & Fisheries committee minutes: 1965-1970;
(64-70) proceedings of the authority: 1964-1974;
(71-72) minutes of the authority: 1964-1974;
(73) byelaws: pre 1950; (74) byelaws: 1952-1958; (75) byelaws:1961-1967; (76) byelaws: 1971-1976;
(77-79) Reports on mining as it affects lands within the Folly Brook catchment area Swinton and Eccles; Dog Clog Brook; Logwood Mill Brook; Rainhill; The River Irk; the River Irwell at Salford; the River Medlock at Clayton Vale, Manchester; Leigh Flash: 1960s-1970s; Report on Investigations for Suggested Reservoir Schemes: 1970; Sea Defence in South West Lancashire and North West Wirral: 1968; Preliminary Survey and Report of the Macrofauna of the Mersey Estuary: 1970s; Estimates of Population and Water Demand to 1981: 1973; General Review of the Biology of Waters in the Area of the Authority: 1971; Hydrometric Scheme reports: 1966; Report on the Condition of the River Mersey Estuary and Adjacent Coast Line: 1971; Report on the water quality of the River Tame: 1971; Report on Work Carried out in the Area of The Mersey River Board: 1965; Report on Climate and Meteorology of the Mersey and Weaver Authority Area: 1969; Altmouth Pumping Station: 1972; Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in the Valleys of the Millingford Brook and The Sankey Brook: 1969; report on the Mersey and Weaver Aquifers: 1973; report on and Investigation into the Effect of a Proposed Increased Cooling Water Discharge into the Weaver Navigation near ICI Power Station at Runcorn: 1973; Foot and Mouth Epidemic 1967/68; Flood Warning System Phase One: 1971; Hydrometric Scheme Report and Review: 1966, 1972;
(80) documents regarding opposition to Manchester Corporation bill: 1964/65;
(81) rules and regulations of the authority: 1971;
(82)statement of policy for ground-water management: 1973.
Cheshire River Board:
(83-85) minutes of proceedings: 1951-1960;
(86) annual reports:1951/2- 1964/5;
(87) souvenir brochures;
(88) River Weaver Catchment Board minutes of proceedings: 1932-1935;
(89) River Weaver Catchment Board report of proceedings: 1930-1934;
(90-104) North East Cheshire Rivers Catchment Board minutes of proceedings: 1935-1951 and (105) report of proceedings: 1936-1938;
(106) Warrington Borough Council annual reports of waterworks engineer and manager: 1966-8, 1970;
(107) Mid Cheshire Water annual reports: 1967-1972;
(108) Warrington, Runcorn & District Water Board annual report and accounts: 1971-1973;
(109) Taylor Woodrow brochure;
(110) River Dee supply stage 2 contract no.2 Huntington filter water reservoir & ancillary works: 1969/70;
(111) brochure- "Mersey & Weaver River Authority. What it is & what it does": 1972
Mersey River Board
(112-115) proceedings: 1951-1965
(116) annual reports: 1951-1961
(117-123) Reports: River pollution: location of sampling points on main rivers & tributaries; River Mersey (above Irlam Weir) Water Resources: 1964; River Alt Water Resources: 1963; Ditton Brook Water Resources: 1963; River Irk Water Resources: 1963; River Bollin Water Resources: 1964; Water Resources summary of data: 1964
(124) Mersey & Weaver River Unit, tour of inspection: 1974
(125) Pamphlet for opening of Fine Jane Pumping Station, by R H Jackson: 1958
(126) Pamphlet for official opening of the Bedford Pumping Station by Colonel S P Dawson: 1964
(127) Fish Population Styudies on the Leeds/Liverpool Canal from Barrowford to AIntree, by Brian Hodgson: 1973
(128) Report on Mobile Bed Model Investigations Carried Out on the Downstream Channel and Discharge Bays of the River Alt Pumping Station: 1970
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| Administrative History | In England and Wales the River Boards were responsible for land drainage, fisheries and river pollution. In 1963 River Authorities took over the role of the Boards. The Mersey and Weaver Authority took over the powers of Mersey River Board and the Cheshire River Board. The Cheshire River Board had itself taken over the River Weaver Catchment Board in 1935 and the North East Cheshire Rivers Catchment Board in 1948. |