SEWER SCHEME IN HALSWELL

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 5

SEWER SCHEME IN HALSWELL

BOARD AGAINST WORK AT PRESENT POPULATION DENSITY INSUFFICIENT A sewerage scheme for the Tankerville area, in Halswell County, should be delayed until there is greater density of population, in the opinion of th®. Christchurch Drainage Board, which last evening approved a report to this effect from its finance committee. The board’s views had been sought by the Halswell County Council. The board’s engineer (Mr E. F. Scott) reported that a scheme of sewerage with gravity discharge into the board’s system was impossible, according to preliminary levels taken over the Hoon ttay road area from Lincoln road to cashmere road. Pumping would be necessary, and ultimately there would be a pumping station between Rose street and Cashmere road It would cost £21,000 to install a scheme for the Tankerville area, where the pumping station would be near the corner of Mather’s road and Tankerville said the engineer’s report. A loan rate of about 2d in the £1 would be required for the limited area referred to by the County Council, said the board’s finance committee, recommending that the scheme should be deferred. The valuation of the area, from Lincoln road to Sparks road, W as about £140,315. It was understood that housing development was proposed on the southern end of Ho ° n i H ? y r °ad, which was the logical et m . any sewer installation in the Tankerville area and which snould be incorporated in any scheme designed for that district