PAEROA WATER SUPPLY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4660, 11 February 1924, Page 2

PAEROA WATER SUPPLY.

WASTAGE BY SELFISH USERS. DRASTIC ACTION TO BE TAKEN. The Ohinemuri County Council and the Paeroa Borough Council have notices in our advertising columns which those persons who are permitting a waste of the water supply on their premises would do well to peruse. As has been previously stated, there is no fear of a shortage of water for Paeroa from its present supply, provided that ordinary care is exercised in its use, but no supply in the Dominion could hold out if the inhaoitants of the town, in relative proportion to the population, were wasting the water to the extent which we are informed is at present being done in Paeroa. A short inspection of one area alone revealed an almost incredible wastage going on. Leaky taps, leaky and overflowing troughs, an I garden hose and taps continuously running.

The culprits, perhaps, hardly realise the seriousness and the intense selfishness of their action, which, apart, from lowering the supply in the reservoir, has the effect of causing those residents on the higher levels of. the town to receive only a feeble flow, owing to the pressure being reduced by so many open vents on the service. The county engineer, in conjunction with the borough officials, is determined in the interests of the townspeople to put a stop to this state of things. A thorough visitation will be made, and in all cases offenders will be dealt with as severely as the law allows.