MARTON WATER SUPPLY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9103, 24 March 1908, Page 4

MARTON WATER SUPPLY.

SIR.—I notice in your issue of Thursday, the 13th inst., you publish a lengthy report in regard to Marton supply by Mr Leslie Reynolds, 0.8. If not taking up too much of your space I should like to refer you to a report prepared by the late Or. S. Gibbons and myself, and submitted to the local Council about seven years ago which was fully reported in your columns, and I might mention that the cost of the scheme would be about £3OOO. In brisf the report proposed that a supplementary reservoir should be constructed on the high ground to the south of the present reservoir and connected with the town by a main through the land of Messrs Gibbons and Johnston to the top of Bond street and thence down Broadway to Wellington Road. The new reservoir should be 300 ft. long, 50ft. wide, and 10 feet deep, and would hold 500,000 gallons. The walls should be of concrete and it should be filled by a windmill pump raising water from the present reservoir to filter beds. The proposed new mains should be 12-inch and the suggested new route would give a fall all the way instead of the existing undulating course. At the top of Broadway the old main should be connected with the new one by a stop valve, only to be opened in case of necessity. The report contained details of mains to be provided in other streets than Broadway and the advantage of the scheme were summed up as follows : 1. Increased pressure of about 851bs. 3. Reduction in fire premiums. 8. Purer water. 4. Supply to ratepayers now without water. It is not necessary to repeat the questions put to Mr Reynolds by the Borough Council after receiving his report, but any one who reads them must see that they -were fully answered in the report we submitted and which is easily accessible to any member of the Council. That report was duly certified to by Mr Fulton, 0.E., at a cost of £35 to the borough and therefore, I ask, is it not superfluous of the Council to seek further advice upon a subject already fully gone into. I feel certain that the ratepayers will hold with me that there is no need for any extra expense on this matter, as it is quite evident from Mr Reynolds’ report, .that nothing more could be done than was included in the report previously submitted by us to the Council, without pledging the Borough to an enormous expense.— I am, etc., E. READ.