Sewerage To Stay Within Urban Fence

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30085, 20 March 1963, Page 15

Sewerage To Stay Within Urban Fence

The Christchurch Drainage Board last evening reaffirmed its decision not to sewer beyond the urban fence at this stage. Commenting on the third stage reticulation programme, the policy committee said unsewered areas within the urban fence when the secondstage programme was completed were Clifton-Scar-borough. Basset street. Burwood. Upper Wairakei roadHarewood road. Rockinghorse road. Wainoni. WaimairiAvonhead, Sockburn. Wig-ram-Lunns and Annex roads Hornby, Islington. Further unsewered areas—“small isolated groupings.” the chairman <Mr F. R. Price) said—would be listed in the stage three programme as miscellaneous areas for later

consideration, the board agreed. It also agreed with the committee that as several of the areas listed consisted of

both built-up and less settled areas, it should reticulate the more necessary sections of each priority before dealing with the less Settled areas. Where existing subdivisions depended on outfalls through properties not yet developed, the board agreed to provide the outfall and recover part of the coat if and when the property was subdivided. Mr Price said the areas covered the whole area inside the urban fence. The next step would be for the engineers to report on priorities. Mr D. P McLellan complained that the decision might be too rigid. As an example, he said Burwood Hospital and some bouses around it were just outside the urban fence. It seemed illogical not to extend a fewchains to provide sewerage for the hospital and the houses there.

"If we do isolated pockets beyond the urban fence we are going to get into a packet of trouble.” said Mr M. R. Carter. "If there is development beyond the urban fence that should be sewered then the obvious answer is to change the urban fence." Mr McLellan's amendment proposing that "in general'* sewerage be limited to the urban fence was loot by six votes to three.