ABORTIVE DRAINAGE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1798, 15 January 1884, Page 2

ABORTIVE DRA IN AGE AT CAMBRIDGE.

The wreck of the drainage scheme carried out by the Cambridge Town Board on the bank of the lake near S. Anchew's Church has ]U&tly been called the "Town Board's Folly." Though many months have now passed since the scheme collapsed, the debris lias been allowed to lie untouched, as if it weie the debire of the board that it should prove a beacon to future bodies, and thus prevent their falling into a like error of administration. The effect of the scheme has certainly not been consistent with its 1 object. Its object was to drain the flat in the vicinity of the church, and to preserve the bank of the lake from being washed away ; but its effect has been to not only notdiainthe flat, but to concentrate the force of the storm water on the very spot which it was intended to save, and thus destroy more of the bank in a few months than would have been th.e,,case had the scheme been allowed to lie dormant in the fertile brain in which it originated. In submitting the scheme to the domain board the town board told that body that the idea was a grand one— that it would drain the flat and save the bank ; but the unfortunate Domain Board are just now realising the fact that the scheme has drained more flats than one, and as to saving the bank they find that their overdraft instead of the water-draft has been seriously affected. For the money which the Domain Board contributed to the work it has had its property injured very much, and a lot of useless debris like the remains of a broken idol strewn along the Lake's bank, — a veritable eyesore, and a nuisance. It has had itself laughed at for allowing itself to be experimented upon by the Town Board, and made the subject of a nonsensical engineering fad. Had it spent the money which it thus foolishly disbursed in contributing to the whim of the town fathers in planting the banks of the lake with deciduous trees, it would have served a permanent benefit, the principal of draining surface water into the lake would not have been called into existence, the present unsightly wreck would not have been a blemish on the scene, and the cost of removing it and making good the damage which it has done would have been saved. Before the scheme was carried out we predicted a failure, and now that it has been carried out and not only failed in its purpose, but has called into existence a dangerous hole in a much frequented thoroughfare, we feel assured in predicting an accident if the damage which has been caused is not immediately attended to.

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