SHORE WATER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 8

SHORE WATER

PUPUKE AS STANDBY

BOARD OF HEALTH DECISION

Information has been received in Auckland that the Board of Health has adopted the report of Mr. F. "\V. Furkert. former engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, with regard to the standby plant necessary in connection with the North Shore water supply. The report was the outcome of a conference of interested local body representatives held at the Auckland Town Hall last July to consider the standbv problem at the North Shore.

The following are the decisions which, it is stated, were arrived at by a meeting of the Board of Health:

That Lake Pupuke be retained as a standby water supply. That the Government be recommended to produce legislation with a view to ensuring that the Auckland City Council is armed with adequate statutory authority to exercise in future the powers at present possessed by the North Shore Water Board for the preservation of the purity of the lake and the operation of the standby plant, including water treatment and pumping works. The cost of maintaining the lake and the standby plant should be a charge on the North Shore boroughs on a population basis.

That the requisitions in terms of Section 4 of the Act be served on all the local authorities concerned in accordance with the recommendations of Mr. Furkert.

That restrictions on building in the catchment area be lifted, subject to the following conditions—(a) That no building is permitted within one chain of the original water level of the lake, this area being reserved and used for no other purpose than treeplanting: <bi that building be permitted only on sections which are adequately drained into the Takapuna Borough Council's sewer, which is outside the catchment area of the lake.