FLOOD PREVENTION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 2

FLOOD PREVENTION.

MORE DETAILS OF SCHEME FOR DUNEDIN.

(PEES 3 ASSOCIATION TEUSOBAH.) February 20. Works estimated to cost & 61,7,538 aTe recommended by a commission of engineers set up by the Dunedin Gity t?oun- j cil and the Harbour Board to report on 1 -the prevent' of flooding from the "Water of Leith and its main tributary, Lind- 1 say's creek. » • - The engineers' consider that works above the residential areas are too Expensive- in .comparison with the likely damage. Most of the work proposed is ' ! inside the boundaries of the city. If the work were to be carried out it would be a huge as the deviation of both streams ia A recommended. 1 The providing of a sufficient' water? way involves alteration or renewal of, many bridges. - The removal 1 of - two I large and comparatively new structures I is recommended, while the widening-of , the whole channel below the Otago University is considered necessary. It,*/is nearly two years since" the engineers were instructed to prepare repojt;