WATER AND DRAINAGE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6

WATER AND DRAINAGE

Position In Eastern Bays

Months have merged into years since the Hutt County Council embarked on a scheme of water and drainage for the eastern bays under its jurisdiction. .1 lie work has been subjected to many delays, chiefly because of a shortage of labour. At the present time Point Howard has ns water supply and two-thirds of tne drainage installation is down, lint owing to a dearth of drain-layers, the work there has ceased for the time being. _ Lowry Bay has both water and drainage. Its septic tank has been constructed on the hill side of the road, near the southern point of the liny, but the work is not quite ready for operation as an entire scheme, as the pipes which wih carry the effluent on beside the road to a point a quarter of a mile southward have not yet been laid. 'J bis, too, has been held up because of labour shortage and the lack of a compressor. Now, however, a compressor has been secured and enough labour lias been made available, so that it is expected that t_he_ job will ho completed before the end ot November. This work can only be done al: low tide (another hold-up factor), as the effluent runs on gravity and the grading of the pipes is a matter of careful laying. The work of supplying Day’s Bay with gravity water and drainage will be put in hand as soon as sufficient labour is available. The position of Mabina Bay is different. Here the property owners have not signified their willingness to pay the cost of linking up with the major scheme, so that bay is being left out of calculations for the lime being.