OFFENSIVE EFFLUENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 618, 21 March 1929, Page 13

OFFENSIVE EFFLUENT

BROUGHT BACK BY TIDE PROBLEM AT WESTFIELD The effluent from the works at Westfield is causing Dr. T. J. Hughes, Medical Officer of Health, some considerable concern. Dr. Hughes said this morning that the effluent was being taken under St. Anne’s Bridge along under the Great South Road into a creek by the incoming tides. “It is indescribably offensive. It is clear that the discharge does not get away, but is brought in by the tide,” he said. At present the question of a combined drainage scheme was being gone into to include Ellerslie, One Tree Hill, Mount Roskill and Mount Wellington. In a recent report to the Drainage Board. Dr. Hughes said that the work was most urgent.

“It is a question of whether the works cannot do more to keep out solid matter from the discharge, arid allow only liquids to be discharged. This will be necessary even when the combined scheme is available,” he said. Another reason for pushing tile scheme through was that the One, hunga collecting tank was not big enough. The Ellerslie drainage was also dependent on the scheme, and until this was carried out flooding would occur at periods of excessive rainfall.