WATER CUT OFF.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 4

WATER CUT OFF.

■ ;-■:"-.; '"• —;' t,.. : .' ■■ ' ■'. ■>':■ ; ;,'/.' A/BIG LANDSLIP..;,.;. /^ Owing to a very heavy landslip on the Hutt Road early l yesterday morning, a break in tho; Wainul-o-mata mam'!'«a»; caused, .thu» outtingoff the water, supply from that cource. Everything was all'right, at 5.15 a.m.j when the pressuxo gauge, registered 150 inches. Then it, dropped slowly until it was bolow 60. • The Karori supply-was turned on a little before 6 o'clock. ■• . -,:'■. . Tho City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) proceeded to the scene oftho sup during tho 'morning, and found that about half a mil* ;this side of 'Rocky Point, half-way between Pctona and Ngahauranga, about 8000 onbio yards,, probably weighing 3000 tens, of fairly hard brown rock, had cpmo down from tho hillside and covered the old,road, under which the main runs. Tho .material on the roadway is about 30 feet in height at tho apex, and tho mains are probably covered by 20 feet of .tho rock, which has to,bo removed before the repairing gangean'get to work and sec what the actual break is. v Mr; Morton is of opinion that only ono pipo'was broken, as th« pressure gauge fell so slowly, and that when tho men are. able .'to get'to, it, it should noi take a very, long timo to repair. Mr. Morton mot tho District Railway Engineer and mado arrangements with'him as to putting mon on at once to clear tho • roadway suffioioritly to allow tho main repairors i to commence opera* tions. The debris is being shifted as vigor- ; ously as possible, and tho mon are working night and day. ' Thirty men. pre engaged on the job, and ten drays and. a ootlplo of, railway trucks, which were' being used by tho railway authorities in tho vicinity. Were called into requisition.: A supply of suitable lights' was sent out to enable the men to work last night. Tho men may bo able to finish by to-night, but that is not certain. At tho' latest, however, tho break should bo repaired and the supply return to;normal by. some time to-tnorrpw. .■.'■.,=..'/. Tho Karori supply met the requirements of the low levels yesterday, but it'was not till about ]1 o'clock, that tho hieh levels wore supplied. .Residents up tho hillsidos arc advised to \ store'.water to-day, -...-■ . . : ."' • ; '-, It'happened that at. the spot,'where the slip foil tho .now main road is available for Use,'and the fact that tho old road is cbv cred by tho rock docs not hinder traffic in any way. Tho railway line is entirely unaffected.