WAJMEA-STREET SEWER.
To the Editor of the ' Evening Mail.' Sir — Touching the Waimea-street culvert, would it not be better to fill up the low lying portions of the culvert with cement concrete, although this would somewhat lessen the Bizein these places, yet they would become the cleanest pnrts of the sewer, as flood water would there rush through with greater force; thia could be cheaply done. Two or three vertical openings would suffice to get the concrete down. Now, admitting the construction is somewhat faulty, it ia hardly fair to charge the present cases of fever solely to this malconstruction. The poisonous gases are more likely to find iheir wuy to the entrance of the sewer, and to be blown back on (he town by the seabraezp, than to rise up a vertical shaft and through the gratings, excapt for an hour or two at high water springe, when the entrance is partially blocked up with water. The mouth of the sewer should be carried out to the river. I have no wish to inlet fere with any local industry, but Ihesmell from tainted hides and skius i 3 as likely nn agent for fever «a anything, and disinfectants should be freely used where such are. I am, &c, William Akersten
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 34, 9 February 1875, Page 2
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211WAJMEA-STREET SEWER. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 34, 9 February 1875, Page 2
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