DRAINAGE MATTERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 199, 8 June 1929, Page 6

DRAINAGE MATTERS.

POSITION IN FENDALTON.

(Per Press Association.) CHHTSTCHURCH, June 7

A sanitary rate of 2s 6d per week is being imposed on certain Fendalton residents who have failed to connect their properties with the sewer. The rate applies in those streets where the time in which it was expected the connections would be made has elapsed. Mr C. E. Cross, chairman of the Waimairi County Council, informed a reporter that the rate was not imposed by the County Council. "It is the contractor's charge," he said. "He has got to go here and there and half a mile somewhere else, and he has to be paid for it. We are only collecting for him. These people have had every opportunity of getting their places connected. The sanitary contract terminated six months ago. We gave six months' notice of the termination. It is no fault of ours.

"There is no earthly reason why these people should not have connected up. It is absolutely their own fault.'•Until the sewer connections have been completed it will not be possible for the council to proceed with its roading scheme in those roads where the sewer has been laid. Mr Cross said the council was not going to put down a good road only to have it torn up again by a drainage contractor. "We want to get everybody connected up so that we can get on with our big scheme of roading in the spring," he said. So far as those properties are concerned that have septio tanks, the owners are to be asked to connect with the sewers from the fence line. When this is done it is hoped that it will be unnecessary to interfere further with the roads, and the new surfaces can then be laid in the expectation that they will not afterwards be trenched.