SUMNER WATER SUPPLY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24799, 13 February 1946, Page 5

SUMNER WATER SUPPLY

Sir, —Sumner residents are accused of using 200 gallons of water a day. Water is the greatest boon in hot weather and 200 gallons a day does not seem unreasonable. All the authorities frequently boost Christchurch because of its unlimited artesian water; but they fail to get it to the people. Is the Sumner consumption recorded by meter or is it estimated as of old by looking at the electric consumption of the pumps and saying, “Well, the pumps consumed so many kilowatts, so they must have pumped so many gallons.” Also when dividing population into gallons consumed, what allowance' is made for the very large number of visitors in Sumner? — Yours, etc.. OBSERVER.

February 7, 1946. • [“ln the 10 months which have elapsed since Sumner joined the city the quantity of water available each day to the Sumner area has been stepped up from 550,000 gallons to 785,000 gallons,” said the Town Clerk. Mr H. S. Feast. “The increase would have been greater had it not been for the damaged condition in which certain eight-inch pipes ordered for Sumner supply were received. The consumption was measured by meter.. It may interest your correspondent ‘to know that during the period when the consumption at Sumner averaged 204 gallons a head the consumption over the whole city was 90 gallons a head.’ 5 ]