BOROUGH WATER TANK.

Kumara Times, Issue 2360, 21 March 1884, Page 2

BOROUGH WATER TANK.

The contractor for the Shed for the fire engine and the contractors for the Tank in Main street are pushing along with their respective works. The former, as we have before noted, is being built by Mr 0. F. Holmes. The Tank is being constructed by M‘Callum and Co., at a cost to the borough of £34: Bs. There was only one other tender, and that amounted to £4O 9s Bd, sent in by Martin Eggleton and Co. The Tank is being built below the footpath iu front of the old Brian Born Hotel, just above what is now best known as the old Bowley Alley. It will be 12ft. by 16ft. by 4ft. in the clear. The bottom and top plates 6in. by 4in.; uprights or studs, sin. by Sin., placed two feet apart, from centre to centre, and spiked to uprights at each end. The planking of the bottom sides and ends of the Tank will be 12in. by Ijin. heart of red pine, and the joints will be covered with battens on the inside 4in. by lin., and each joint is to be well coated with white lead. The covei’ing of the top is to be Bin. by Sin. planking, affixed to joists with sin. spikes, on which is to be erected a framework. The man-hole is to be 2|ft, square in the clear inside; uprights 4in, by 2in., and covering boards 2in. thick; and to be fitted with a trap-door of Sin. timber, on a level with the footpath, and provided with strong iron hinges, and a stout iron ring for the purpose of raising the lid. The top of the Tank, when fixed, will be on a level with the underground drain. The whole of the inside of the Tank will have two coats of coal tar. Under

the bottom plates of the Tank, planking 9in. by 3in. is to be placed, to give a good bearing, 2ffc. apart, and filled up with clay or puddle. The whole of tho timber used in its construction is to be of heart of red pine, free from rot and sap.

Each corner of the Tank is to be blocked from top te bottom with planking Sin. by Sin., well coated inside with white lead, and afterwards covered with two coats of coal tar.

The contract for the Tank was signed on the 11th March, and the work is to be completed within one month, to the entire satisfaction of the Borough Council Public Works Committee, or any person whom they may appoint to superintend the work. Payment will be made of 75 per cent, on completion of the work to the satisfaction of the committee ; the remaining 25 per cent, will be paid when the Tank has been full one month and proved to be watertight.

It is intended to construct a similar Tank in Seddon street; but for the present a dam will be made in Quinn’s Creek, on the north side of Seddon street.