DRAINAGE.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 310, 10 May 1894, Page 2

DRAINAGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — There is a grievance among several of the residents of Manchester street about drainage. Some years back a water course was diverted from the left side of the street by a culvert, to the right side opposite Mr Curtis 1 property, with the alleged object of preventing the flood water from run. ning throught several sections and flooding the school grounds ; residents on the right side now complain of this and wish the culvert to be dispensed with. This would necessitate the construction of a water table on both sides of the street. A great portion of the overflow comes from the direction of the English Church, through the intervening sections. Although a I drain was constructed down West i street which diverted the water run* ning from Mr F. Lethbridge's property, which formerly found its way down Manchester street, yet the floods of last winter show that there is still sufficient water to cause an overflow which finds its way to that street. The flood water overflows and collects on the low part of section No 69 adjoin* ing section No 70, where I reside. This water having no way of escape, has to filter its way through all the intervening sections between that section and the school ground, keeping them in a wet state throughout the winter, and A greater part of the spring months. I have cut a drain along the side of section No 70 near section 69 boundary and also along the back boundary, this drain fills up with flood water every winter which remains there for a considerable time stagnant, thero being no further out let The fall of the ground and natural course of this water is towards Grey street near its junction with Warwick street. Most of this land is in a high situation and would be greatly enhanced in value, in regard to sanitation, and in other ways, by drainage, no doubt the want of it is favourable to microbe germination, and the injurious effects are apparent by the dead and dying trees in the locality. Now, if an outlet was provided by drainage at the back boundary of those sections, it would relieve Manchester street of some portion of the flood water, and as the fall is considerable a drain varying between 15 inches and 2 feet deep and about the same width according to inequality of fall, would dispose of the surplus water. As this is a subject of importance to the general public in the case of the school and otherwise I hope the affair will be seen to. I am, etc., F. J. Knox. Feiliing, May Bth, 1894.