CAMBRIDGE ROAD DISTRICT DRAINAGE SCHEME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1759, 13 October 1883, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE ROAD DISTRICT DRAINAGE SCHEME.

Thk following lepoit has> boon furnished to the Cambridge Road Board by tho engineeis, Messrs Sandes and Nappor :—: — In accorda'icj with instructions we have inspected the various roads in the centre of youi distiict, w ith a view to the drainage of the same. We find that tho natural fall of tho country is from south-east to southwest, geneially, and that the amount ot fall is sufficient to enable the surface-water to be inn off fiom the ni.'ny low spots about the district. It w ill be quite impossible to devise any scheme which would drain the loads alone, without miming through and benefiting private propoity to a greater or less extent. We, therefore, think that it would be advibable for piivate propertyholdeis, whose lands will be benefited by the drains, to pay their share towauls the cost of the work. It will be , a very easy matter to anive at the extent of the" benefit derived by each landholder thiough whose propeity, or past whose ]nopsity the diain would run, and they could be lilted in proportion to such benefit. We would point out at the same time that if any pi opui ty owner who might be benefited by the drain, providing he got the use of it, iefused to pay his shaie, the road b.md could pievcnt'his usingit at alb (vide' section 100, sub-soetiou 5,' Fublic Works Act, 1882. ) The plan we propose would be to sUit in the gully which mns through 3 Cowling's, about 25 chains below , Selby's culvert, and bring up a good bized diain,. straightening thcpigbeut water comae in so doing. Thiough Selby't. the drain would require to bo deepened and widened out to four feet at the bottom',' and the side drain past .sections 51 and 54 would also require deepening, aud widening. From the commencement up to the corner of lot No. 54 the gi.'ide would be •OS) per chain, or 7"2 feet per mile. , From this cfirner up past sections 54, 53, 46, and 45, to the low .spot at Crouch's, the grade would be '07 per chain, or 5"0 feet per mile, and the bottom of the drain would bo two feet below the bottom of the pipes at present in. This would take all the water off. Ciosbing the i oad going east, we then enter on to Fergusons boundary, and run from this point along the line of fence between sections 35, 38, 3(5, and 37, up to the road at Butler's at a grade of "08 per chain, or (i' 4 feet per mile, and take all the water away from Brown's and off the roadway, the drain being about 2ft. Gin. below the bottom of the present diain. The total fall from this point to the point, of commencement is about 19 feet ; length, three miles. In order to drain No. 2 station road, we leave the other drain in Mr Fergusons paddock, and run a drain up to the road l(i chains long at a grade of 15 per chain, or 'l2, feet per mile. Then run along the road 1 ' easterly for 35 chains at a grade of _ "10 per chain, or 8 feet per mile. Into this drain all the water from the wet lands above could 'be run, ' and ' the road running from No. 2 station road to, the Cambridge road at Arnold's Corner could also be drained and made quite dry., In making the dr^ins^ alongside of the roads 1 all the stuff from the bottoms would come in for making up the roads, and , may be spread, as it is sure tobe good quality stuff. The estimate'of theprobable cost would be £250, as pipes would be wanted in two or three places, and in one instance a culvert would have to be lowered to get the proper levels. We have no hesitation in saying that 'the drainage scheme would be of the very greatest benefit to the 'district generally m taking the flood waters off the roads, which cannot possibly be kept'diyin any other way, except by raising them at all the low places, and this we 1 believe would cost as much, or very neaily so, as the draining, at the same time leaying the evU still in existence. .The total length of drains proposed in our present scheme is about 3oochains, at, say 16s per chain ( all round, including pip6s, culvert's, commission, advertising,' &c — We are, &c, ' ' ■, <, .- , Sandes and Nappek, 0.E. ,-

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