KARAKA BAY PROTEST
DISCHARGE OF EFFLUENT NO CAUSE FOR ALARM Property-owners at Karaka Bay, disturbed at the proposal of the New Lvnn Town Board to discharge septic tank effluent into Alanukau Harbour, wrote to the Harbour Board asking it to use its influence to hold up the proposal in the meantime. The property-owners’ statement that the sewage to be discharged into the Alanukau was not pure enough to be put into the Waitemata, was described by Air. H. 11. Mackenzie, chairman of the board, at its meeting yesterday, as incorrect The Health Department and the board had both favoured the scheme. The engineer stated that by paying for it it was possible to get an almost entirely pure effluent. .But there would be absolutely no pollution from the effluent discharged into the Alanukau, which was a big body of water flowing at the rate of two miles an hour away from any beach.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 12
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153KARAKA BAY PROTEST Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 12
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