WAITARA DRAINAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 139, 7 December 1911, Page 6

WAITARA DRAINAGE.

SUGGESTED SEWERAGE SCHEME. At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board a letter was received from Mr. C. P. Dowsett, engineer to the Waitiira Borough Council, to the effect that the Council was considering the proposal of installing a drainage system, and it was suggested that the sewerage should by gravitation empty itself in its lim into the Waitara river, at, say, any street abutting on the river, similarly to the Wanganui system, and asked' if any objection was anticipated to the proposal. Mr. Kendall reported that he had visited Waitara and recommended that the matter ,be referred to the Public Health Department with a view to obtaining approval of the most favored method of dealing with sewerage and most suitable point of 'outfall, the level of outfall having an important bearing on the matter, as' iby a gravitation scheme to obtain the necessary gradients, the sewerage would have to discharge at low water into the Waitara rivieT at a selected point several chains below the wharves. The question was: Would the Department favor discharge at low water with a rise in the tides at high water of about seven fret, or the alternative of a pumping scheme? There was also the suggestion the sewerage should -discharge at any street abutting on the river in a manner similar to the practice at Wanganui. The Board suggested that the following clause should be added to the Inspectors report, which would then be forwarded to the Department: That he was directed by the Board to state that it does not view with favor the discharge of untreated sewerage into the Waitara river, as the circumstances at Waita;ra were not parallel with those at Wanganui."