SEEPAGE AT ALLENTON

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 5

SEEPAGE AT ALLENTON

EVIDENCE TO BE PREPARED

A decision to appoint a solicitor to prepare evidence from its members op land, allegedly affected by seepage from irrigation channel* in the Ashburton county, was made at a meeting of the Ashburton County Irrigation Problems’ Association last evening. The meeting, which was held in committee, was called to consider the trouble which had occurred recently at Allenton, in many parts of which the ground water level has risen abnormally high, flooding residential sections and causing an overflow of some private sewerage systems. This trouble and also a flow of surface water on the farms of Messrs J. F. Langley and J. Brand on the eastern boundary of the Ashburton borough was considered by members of the association to be greatly aggravated by water seeping from the AshburtonLyndhurst irrigation scheme. It was decided to ask the irrigation section of the Public Works Department for information about any loss of water occurring in the Rangitata diversion channel between the intake at the Rangitata Gorge and the south branch of the Ashburton river at Mt. Somers. The resolutions were released to “The Press” after tjie meeting.