THE DRAINAGE QUESTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 62, 12 November 1892, Page 2

THE DRAINAGE QUESTION.

TO THE EPITOB OF THB STAB. Sir, — I was very pleased to see the letter sent to your paper by " A Colonist " I quite agree with all he states. There cannot be any question about the matter. It is one of vital importance to every person living in a township or back block. The principal things requisite for all is good food, pure air, water, good drainage > and sanitary homes. The town of Feilding is almost on a dead level. I should like to know how the waate water is to be got rid of. It would never do to pollute the streams with impure matter from the habitations. If a sewer is intended by " A 1 Colonist " to be formSdm the Borough, where is the outlet to be made ? Does he propose to make reservoirs for the deposit of the solid matter ? If so, how and where is the water to be carried away ? If an j irrigation farm could be made the thing might be worked ; but I do not ccc how the surplus water can be carried off unless a sewer is made down to the sea shore because the laws for guarding against the pollution of rivers and their tributaries would be against any tampering with the water in that way. If the idea hinted at is only to parry off rain water, the present ditches, with a better system of levels, would answer all purposes ; but to undertake the drainage of dwellings, as generally understood, is, I fear, too great an undertaking for the Borough of Feilding at present to enter upon. It should not be lost sight of that Feilding sometimes is flooded after heavy rains, so that drains having no lower level than the bed of the river would be useless as the water would rush into the pipes or drains and so into the houses, and stay their till the flood waters were lower. Much money and time is being spent to stock the rivers with fish, and if sewerage matter was allowed into the rivers it would very soon clear out all the trout, etc. It would be a grand thing to have the town drained, but I am afraid that it cannot be done unless a brick built sewer is made (as I have before stated) and carried right down to the sea shore. I am, etc., _______ H * T ' B -