WATER POLLUTION PROBLEM

Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 1 October 1954, Page 1

WATER POLLUTION PROBLEM

BORES AND WELLS IN TOWN Incidental reference to a possible future sanitation problem in Taupo was made by Dr. J. S. Armstrong, when objecting before the Borough Council to dead-end street proposals in the Town Planning Scheme. Dr. Armstrong had referred to the danger of motor truck traffic in dead-end streets to playing children, and to difficulties experienced in other towns in the use of such streets of sanitary wagons. It is quite likely, stated the witness that sanitary wagons and even night-soil wagons would be required with the scattered population they had in the town. They might be requested by the Health Department to establish some night-soil collection, because it must be remembered that all the water-bores people were putting down to get water were all superficial bores. They did not go through any impermeable strata and were therefore all affected by what was deposited on the surface. For that reason they would be requested either to put in drainage or probably, in the first instance, some night-soil removal system. Deadend roads caused difficulty in such collections, of which he had had experience in the town in which he had last been stationed. With a through road the vehicles went right through picking the material up as they went.