SEALED PART OF RIVERBED
CONTROLLED TIPPING SUGGESTED Filling, by controlled tipping, of the dead-water bow in the Avon riverbed caused by the cutting of the Kerr’s reach rowing course is being recommended to the Christchurch City CounChristchurch Drainage Board by the North Linwood-Dalling-ton Burgesses’ Association _ P artlc u!ar attention to the length of 000 yards bordering Avonside drive, just beyond the finishing line at Kerr’s reach, is urged by the association. It claims that this area, when filled, would make an ideal car park. After representations from the association, the two local bodies recently decided that fallen trees and other debris should be removed and some water allowed to flow through the present sealed section to keep drainage water moving. The association now suggests that the trees should be left IJIA he + area to giv ? nearby dwellings protection from wind and dust The meeting claimed that water in the old riverbed would only aggravate the inated CeS * rom complaints orig-
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26599, 8 December 1951, Page 2
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