Three-Day Job On Collapsed Drain
(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, November 17. It will take about three days to repair a 36in stormwater drain which collapsed in Grey Road, Timaru, on Thursday afternoon, flooding the lower end of Matilda Street.
Pumps handled water at the rate of 72,000 gallons an hour on Thursday night, but the level, topped off by steady rain, was lowered by only sin in two hours and three-quart-ers of pumping ait the peak of the flood flow. A family which was evacuated when water rose to within one foot of the floorboards of their house in Matilda Street, has moved back.
To reach the obstructed section of the old drain, the Timaru City Council’s engineering staff will have to excavate to a depth of 24ft. Shoring will be necessary because of the danger of the earth sides falling in. The city engineer (Mr H. W. Walter) said this evening that one city council pump had kept the water level down during the day.
14,000 Conns.—The Canterbury Education Board’s science advisers have recently completed distribution of 14,000 gladioli corms for school and home garden projects of pupils in the board's area.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31530, 18 November 1967, Page 1
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