THE TOWN DRAINAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81860, 9 October 1906, Page 3

THE TOWN DRAINAGE.

AN UNCOMPLETED SYSTEM. AN IMPORTANT REPORT. In view of the proposal to raise a loan for the extension of the New Plymouth electric ligoiing scheme, and for ether works, a compiehcn'•ive statement complied by Mr A. 11. Kendall, sanitary engineer, calls for seiiuus consideration. Mr Kendall reports that over 2'< miles u f the sewers embodied 111 Mr Mesiayrr's scheme are not yet laid, and some of these are urgently lcquircd in sheets where hot weather will probably make the conditions, intolerable. As making the position moie arule, the engineer mentions that l-everai owners' of property have anticipated the sewers 'and have as far as possible hud down newdrains to connect with the new sewers to be laid. In his estimates of the work in these unsewered streets, MiKendall mentions they are considerably lower (hail the cost of the drainlaid up to the present, ])ut he feels -tire he can cany out the w»ik. foi the amounts gUcn. 'J'lie sheets .1- vol not completely

n'WP-cl, unci which \\«-i'- im iudod in Mr Mc-,ayc:'s -s.-ln-ni-- of lyoi, arc at'ullmvs: —iluia, Ke,mont, (.Hutu. V(iun«, Si. Aubyn, l'owdcrham, iJ.iwson, R'lje, Silver, Devon, Coiirtcnay, and Vivian slueis, \vhi<-h could I)'' sewered at a cost »f £>i')S for a lH'l l ' <ivr ;uo chains. New '-I'wm, not included in the scheme of 1001. had been laid in Devon, Lemon, Liardei and Mount Edgecombe streets, tumll'ng 41 chains. Those street, m which Se'.'/ers ale absolutely and urg-

. nilv noei's-arv for '.'"'- Jinprovement satciv, ;md conservation of tile ;?"'j' lie health are. in Mr Mestayer's

scheme, portions of Nine, I'oivderham. Dawson. Robe, and Devon l-inels. 11. ( chains, 10-tino; /NSO; not included in thai Mheme: poiiions of Vivian, Kb lot, l.eiunn. and GUI sired-, bJ

. li.iili-. to co-i /.110,. It is, in Ml Kendall's opinion, nccc-sary n. cx>™vh "ill pan- of KuifoKl. \'ivian, Dawson. C'ami'iim and l.eiiion s|,<vls oilier Hum ih„G' enumerated ale v. "I l,eo lr-pe, Olliiv lo poinl oil!," write, Mr Kuiilall, "ihat die,on liirtion of scwel- and h'HI-e eolMOelio!,-i'-tlie mi,-, .•■■uniimica! meih"d of sanitary bet.enneni of the borough, and is far nioie economical t'lan concrete kcrbing and channelling, in ihal both s-,|es of t|„.-tn,-is are served and

'.ireei onlv." He estimate- thai the diainagc ~{ Devon street, from Brougham street to R,,|,e -1,,.,■!, will

I cost i'loo (main sewer only), as there j are in, jjiijrinectinir difficulties in th" I way. _^____^__