DRAINAGE WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 7

DRAINAGE WORKS.

PBOGRESS OF I'IIE UNDERTAKINGS.

Th« drainage works which are being carried out,in various, parts.of- suburbs are,pro-, greasing, 'satisfactorily.', Tho. tnaiii ;■ drain through Island Bay, from Duppa Street': to tho septic tank, is'practically complot.cd, and.j next' week; the: drainage ■ from Borhamporo will? bo Agoing uovru iiU-o tho Island Day scptic, tank. ' - ■■■ • The reticTilation of Rosenoatn lias been' compkted, 'and tlio work of laying two steel mains, nott - proceeding ; between Oriental Bay;; and'; tho ' ejector - chamber at;. Balina' Bay', One of tho pipes will convoy air from: tKo ptimping station,, and the other will convey sowrage from Balina Bay to tho existing main, at Oriental ,B(»y. WotU has bebn commenced at Eilbimio, where a 12-inoh drain is. being laid to run into tho, main outfall sewtr at Duncan Torrnco. " ■ Tho work at Kelburno has bqon practionlly completed, and most of tho houses have been connected up. Arrangements havo still to bo made for- carrying pipes through _ tin ga»l roservo,'' so aft to drain a few. reaidanefts in ■ Fairiio Terrace and Kelburno Paratla. ggatterod. .Brooklyn district, ' has ncoessitat'ed the laying of ,'some long stretches of drain,-; but. about; two-thirds of, the,'pug lines have Wsn run., v