ROAD SLIPS INTO EXCAVATION
Water Main Broken A subsidence in the roadway at the intersection of Somerfleld and Barrington streets, during the filling of a sewer excavation, fractured a water main, and some residents were without water from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. The sewer is being laid to serve the new Cashmere hospital and when sheathing was withdrawn in preparation for back-filling, part of the roadway (soaked in recent rains) collapsed into the excavation. The alignment of a City Council water main was disturbed and the pipe fractured. Temporary repairs were made and permanent work will be done when the ground settles. The City Council’s waterworks engineer (Mr A. H. Jecks) said the water and gas mains had to be repaired “at all sorts of times and on most days of the week" because of Drainage Board conThe chairman of the Drainage Board (Mr H. P. Smith) said it was inevitable that there should be some disturbance of water and gas mains when so many sewerage contracts were in progress.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 12
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