ORAKEI SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 6

ORAKEI SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

ihe wwerage outlet at Orairi, the Harbour Board float ie>t. taken befoie ft w-as finally deci(!e<l that Orakei was to be tie outlet of !-»"weraj;e. was of no value for dwndthe run of the tide, because it was carried out with floats or buoys with more snr-fa«-e above water than below. consequenUj" tin wind operated the float- and drove them •anywhere. My float tot wa< carried out wll cylinders tw.» feet long and eighteen inche in diameter weighted to >ink six feet belt* the surface of the water. These erlinden were set adrift in set* at the time the was Mippo-ed to be liberated at each tide, ani owinj: to the hijrh spt-e<l of my vessel. I «» enabled to l<xate the position of each every half hour. Captain White, who «*s will me. had the chart an<l instruments requirra and j<itte<l down on the chart the position « each Moat. This chart was afterwards jirrawi and published by the "New Zealand £**I*niau"' and clearly sliowe«l that the sewwi? would be carried on to the beaches at Kohiinaraina, St. Hcliers. Holts«n Bay. and ri?W up to .ludye's and Mechanic*' Bays. During u * ebli title there i> an eddy caused by the Kin? f wharf, and this eddy" caused tie sewra^ , to be carried up the south side of the harbour to tho Kind's wharf. The deflector* a^ vf gueens wharf and that oil" Cnnij-beirs Ponrt ha\e not affected the run of th«- tide, becawf the Kin;:"* wharf va- liie deflector of t» tide before the ? ewcniui- was deposits »' Orakei. and it -till the dtSector of the «'» tide. The embankment put out from Cw»r bell's Point to form a boat harbour prevents the back eddy frnni reaching u |f Kind's wharf. That i* the only clirTt-reDrt , - [ w authorities who were responsible for ebonw* Orakei for the outfall of the sewer were W. »hown that that outfall would foreshore from the Kind's wharf tfl • |Hel:ers and that coniainination would w creas,, a < tho .pn-ntity of -ewerase dwdejTj incrca-ed. but they -hm their (\\es to anvtiii'Ithat would cmlam-.r their -.lu.no in any* B After my float te't. to -ati.fv the «i'« to throw dust in the c> e- of our they extended the J.-u-jth of ihc srv.er rm-hi-h-wat.-r n:ark a further m\ rmudrrd H» beyond the p.,:nt at wbi.-li ii hail bcfß *e*J to discharge th- -,■«..;,-. and it »-«**s& sib'.e at tbat tin,,- to .-..nv i.i.v tbe [responsible that it did imi :.ie»er»t the «**", from .-ontamiunti,, Z fo, -^. k \\, iu-«rin» it- nn.ut-r million of }<*«** " ■and sho-ild wii'-iin .1-I;.> -<•<■* >~me other <"» I fall -lor h<. -eweia-c i\.;n <»iak<-i- rV C. A. WHITXJT-