OXIDATION POND

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 16

OXIDATION POND

Opposition At Mt Pleasant “You want the whole of Christchurch to pay for your little corner.” Cr. W. E. Olds charged the residents of St. Andrews Hill and Mount Pleasant when he addressed the Mount Pleasant Community Centre’s annual meeting. “I don't want the oxidation pond planned for this area any more than you do,” he said. “But you protest against it and we will have to pay for some other temporary scheme.” Tbe meeting decided to seek assurances from appropriate bodies that plans for the oxidation pond would be dropped, and a pipe system of drainage be installed instead to form part of the main sewer trunk system, from Sumner. Mr N. E. Kirk, member of* Parliament for Lyttelton, said' he had asked the Marine Department to withhold any approval the department might decide to give until a decision had been made by the City Council. Mr Kirk said he would not approve anything capable of adding to the nuisances already existing in the district. He could not imagine a worse site for the oxidation pond. Mr R. C. Neville, the district’s representative on the Drainage Board, said that if residents and the authorities said they did not want the pond, then the board would accept that. But it would cost £ 100,000 to put in a pipe system, which would probably become redundant in five years.