SEA COMES THROUGH.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 8

SEA COMES THROUGH.

SEWER ON RECLAIMED LAND. CONTRACT IN BEACH ROAD. A flow of water from sewerage works which are being carried out by contract in Beach Road, near the foot of Constitution Hill, gave rise to the speculation as to whether or not a spring of water had been tapped. The answer proved to be in the negative. Seepage from the sea through reclaimed land is the explanation. "Whenever we go deep on reclamation land we use pumps," said the acting-city engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, when questioned about the matter. "That is because it is below the gravitation level. In Customs Street and elsewhere, when we have put in deep trenches the sea lias got into them." As explained by Mr. Tyler, the work in Beach Road is being carried out at the expense of the Railway Department in order to link up with the main sewer the drainage from the new railway station. Whereas the existing sewer goes Bft 6in below the level of the road the new sewer will be sunk to a depth of 12ft lOin below the road surface, or 6ft below the ordinary high water spring tide level. Some of the drainage from the railway station will be at a lower level than could be caried away by the existing sewer. The contractors expect to complete the work of laying the new sewer in about two months, which will be in good time for the laying of connecting i sewers from the new railway station. i