WATER FROM RIVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 7

WATER FROM RIVER.

BOROUGH SUPPLY LOW. POSITION* AT GISBORXE. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) GISBORXE, this day. For the first time on record the C.isborne municipal authorities were compelled to-day to resort to pumping water from ' the Waipaoa River to augment the borough supply from Waingake, approximately 15,000 gallons hourly being delivered into the mains from the river for a total supply of less than 50,000 gallons. Some relief was given by a small quantity of rain last Friday night and pumping from Mangapoike was suspended temporarily, but was resumed on Tuesday. The water there, however was quickly reduced to its former le\ el and. in addition to tlie shortage at the hcadworks, some leaks developed in the main to further aggravate the position. Because of the dry weather additional chlorination has been resorted to at the request of the Health Department. The borough engineer, Mr. E. R. Thomas, stated to-day that at all times the council had met the Health Department's standards and provided the quantity of chlorine for sterilisation purposes demanded by tlic Department. Water from tlic Waipnoa River, he added, was also being chlorinated up to the Department's requirements.