PLAN FOR CHRISTCHURCH
Sir, —Your correspondent, W. R. Early, mentions several directions in which this city’s position could be improved; but he has omitted the important consideration of safety. Allowing for natural capacity to carry an increased population and grow into a larger city, what has been done to protect Christchurch from an ever present and ever growing threat? In the last 100 years a great change has taken place in the Waimakariri riverbed. Much of the protecting vegetation has been removed and erosion has changed everything. The process of lowering the riverbed and raising its banks, while quite effective for a time, cannot go on indefinitely; and then? We hear of rainfalls of 12 inches or more causing major floods, but is that the limit? These record floods generally occur about October, after snows have melted; but may they not happen earlier, after a very heavy snowfall?—Yours, etc., $ March 28, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25766, 30 March 1949, Page 3
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