SEWAGE NOW; PUMPED

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30943, 27 December 1965, Page 5

SEWAGE NOW; PUMPED

Hill Suburb Connexion

“A significent step towards the ultimate treatment of all sewage from the St. Andrew’s hill. Mount Pleasant, Redcliffs and Sumner area." was how the chairman of the Christchurch Drainage Board (Mr F. R. Price) yesterday described the conversion of the St. Andrew’s hill septic tank into a pumping station This has now been brought into service.

Through the conversion, sewerage from St. Andrew’s hill was now being pumped through the recently-installed two-mile rising main round the Estuary to the board’s oxidation ponds, thus eliminating the effluent discharge into the Estuary in the vicinity of the Mount Pleasant Yacht Club. The temporary discharge of raw or partially treated sewerage at this locality was thus eliminated, said Mr Price. More work proposed in the St. Andrew's hill-Mount Plea-sant-Redcliffs-Sumner area would ultimately result in the complete interconnexion of this area with the board’s treatment works and thereby eliminate all possible sources of pollution. "This will be a costly undertaking, which the board will carry out concurrently with its other large capital projects, and is covered by a loan of £350,000 which is now before the Local Authorities Loans Board for its consideration,” said Mr Price.