FLOOD CONTROL WORK STARTED ON WAIRERE STREAM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 95, 15 September 1948, Page 4

FLOOD CONTROL WORK STARTED ON WAIRERE STREAM

For some time now a team including men made available by the Whakatane Borough Council has been busy planting trees and rambling , rose bushes along the Wairere stream water course—first move in the attempt to alleviate the flood menace and arrest erosion. To keep stock of the newly-plant-ed areas, a strip from four to five chains wide has been fenced off. Apart from that information, conveyed to the Borough Council on Monday night in the report of the foreman-engineer, Mr W. S. Henderson, the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council wrote giving estimated costs of proposed flood prevention works. Works required to be done to control thO Wairere stream will cost £21,240 and the Wairere £1,260. So far as the Wainui Te Whara is concerned, the letter went on, a good, deal of work is required before a firm estimate can be arrived at covering the whole flood damage and its apportionment amongst the local bodies, the S.C. and R.C. Council and the Main Highways Board. It was therefore recommended to the Borough Council that it have a complete engineering survey made and a comprehensive plan of the Wainui Te Whara stream drawn up. An inquiry is to be. directed back to the S.C. and R.C. Council as to what is involved in such a survey, who would be a good engineer to make it, what is the cost likely to be and would the Borough Council have to stand all that cost?