Power to examine and test sewer etc. believed to be defective

(1) Where it appears to the Board that there are reaSonable grounds for believing that a private sewer or cess-pool is in such oondition as to be -prejudicial to public hoal~h or to be a nuisance or that a privat.o sewer com·mUJJ.ioa.ting directly or indirectly with a S&W6I' of the Board is so defective as to e.dmit sub-soil water or grit or other materials, the Board may examine its condition and for that purpose may apply any toot, not being a t'611t by vator under pressure, and if it dooms it necesi>a.ry, open the gtoWld. (2) If on examination the sewer or ooss-pool ir. found to be in proper con-dition, the Board shall, as soon as possible, reinstate any ground which has boon opened by it and determine and pay compensation for the damage oaused by it.