STORMWATER OUTLET

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 13

STORMWATER OUTLET

NEW NEWMARKET SEWER CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY Commencing with a tunnel at present being sunk under the Newmarket Railway Workshops, a sewer is to be constructed to drain the Newmarket area by way of the Newmarket Gully and the Drainage Board's main sewer in Hobson Bay. For a number of years a considers able portion of the Newmarket borough, including practically the whole of the low-lying area, has been affected by occasional flooding as a result of the gravitation of stormwater from the higher areas of Epsom, Mount Eden and a portion of Newmarket itself. The tender for the work has been let to Messrs. Grinter Bros., Otahuhu, at £8*873 7s 6d. Operations were commenced about a fortnight ago, 16 hands being employed. Up to the present 115 feet have been driven and it is hoped to complete the contract within about eight months. The first instalment of the scheme, a branch sewer, 2,010 feet in length, which will run through the property of Messrs. Abels. Ltd., a short distance from the Newmarket entrance to the Domain cricket club, has been commenced. This branch will eventually be extended to a point close to the North Auckland railway line at its junction with Khyber Pass Road. It will afford the necessary relief to the very acute stormwater problem in the Newmarket area between Khyber Pass Road and Car ton Gore Road.