Why not water for Rangataua also?

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 268, 20 December 1988, Page 3

Why not water for Rangataua also?

A letter from Rangataua ratepayers asking why a water supply system was not being installed along with the sewerage scheme was discussed at the last Waimarino works meeting.

Works engineer Don Sattler had provided the committee with a report, compiled by Cr Doug Bennett and himself, which included comments on the points raised by the ratepayers.

The report said the Waimarino County Council had decided against a scheme which included a water supply because the small number of permanent residents a loan for the half-mil-lion dollar scheme could have been rejected; because the b u r den on s o m e ratepayers for both schemes could have been too great; and because the investigation report on the scheme may not have met the deadline required.

The letter suggested water could be collected at what is known as the Carter intake, but the report said the Health Department had tested the water and found it to be unsatisfactory in its normal state for household use. Another suggestion from the letter, that the water pipes could be laid in the same trenches as the sewer pipes, was dismissed because of the "extreme depth of the cut required for the laying of the sewerage scheme makes it most undesirable to lay the water pipes in the same trench". The committee was told the compacting of

the earth in the trenches would cause damaging distortion of the water pipes and that they would then need to be replaced.