FLOOD CONTROL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 4

FLOOD CONTROL

Protection at Pakowhai LQW-LEVEL BANK A start has been made by the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board with the building of a low-level bank at Pakowhai to protect the settlers from small floods from the Ngaruxoro river. The new bank is to take the line of the north bank of the overflow in the major control scheme for the Ngaruxoro river. A number of scoop teams are employed, aud the work now in progress will extend several hundred yards to the south of the main road. The present work is not expected to give protection in heavy flood, but will be sufficient to cope with any moderate riee in the river. All the large poplar trees along the main road and also for some distance down the Farndon road which will be in the overflow have been felled and cut into firewood. Most of this wood has already been removed, and so a big •clearance has been effeeted. The bank now being erected was the subject of representations between the settlers and the Rivers Board. As the construetion of the permanent bank as provided for in the scheme ie not expected to be reaehed within the next eighteen months, the low-level bank will afford settlers relief in the meantime.