DIRECT FROM MOUNTAIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 300, 3 December 1936, Page 6

DIRECT FROM MOUNTAIN

HAWERA WATER. Council To Raise £23,000 Loan. Preliminary steps to raise three loans amounting to £23,000 were decided by the llawera Borough Council last night. Two propositions on which polls will be taken are £12,000 for drawing the town’s water supply from Egmont National Park, on which will bo paid a subsidy - of 15 per cent, from the employment fund, and £6OOO for Nolantown sewerage. The third loan is for reconditioning the existing water main and augmenting the pumping plqnt. The Mayor, Mr J. E. Campbell, presented a report selling out the alternative water schemes for the mountain supply and chlorination and filtration. The difference in cost, would be £243 a year and, considering 'the great advantages of the mountain scheme, he recommended that the council take steps to submit this proposal to a poll. It would provide water of crystal' purity at the rate of 1200 gallons a minute at a cost, estimated by Mr Worley, consulting engineer, at £14,875. By - substituting a direct route for the proposed road route a considerable saving would be made, and 'the employment fund subsidy would bring the cost down to £12.000, on which charges for 35 years would be £6OO ■a year. The annual cost of the sterilisation and filtration scheme would be £357 for the first 15 years, £305 for the subsequent 20 years and £lO5 thereafter. Mr Worley had seen the Eric process in operation at Auckland and wrote that it was working satisfactorily.