BROADWAY CHANNELLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 8

BROADWAY CHANNELLING.

[To Tuk Ed non. Stratford Post.] ... Sir,-— Many ratepayers have requested me to drop you a line to protest emphatically against the worse than waste of money—this scandalous waste of money that is now going on in the borough. To see this going on—to see such thoroughly good work as is now being destroyed and uderior work put in its place is deserving of the highest censure,and a vote of want of confidence in the Council, it will be found that the present channel is inferior in every way to that pulled up. In the first place it is much less easy to step from the footpath to the road. But that is the least important point, although in itself it is important. The old channelling was designed to give a gentle flow to the water, and in case of storm could spread itself out. Ihe sand that the wind drifted into the gutters had a chance to drift out again. This is now altered. Any sand that drifts in muse stay there until swept away by the storm water. And where is it swept top Well, simply into the underground channels. What will happen there anyone can sec that will take the trouble to go round to your office and look at the result of that short piece of channelling in Fenton Street. f need say no more than this: Let anyone who wishes fairly to judge of the value of this piece of idiotic extravagance just go to the corner of Fenton and Juliet Streets and judge for themselves what will happen to the underground channels.—l am, etc., H. WILSON.