PETITION FAILS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31615, 28 February 1968, Page 16

PETITION FAILS

Residents Seek Sewer

The Christchurch Drainage Board will not consider providing sewerage systems in the Burwood area outside the urban fence until the results of the review of the urban fence are made public. The board last evening decided not to act on a petition from residents in Burwood Road for the provision of sewerage. The petition, supported by the Waimairi County Council, had been presented to the treatment works committee by the council’s chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) for 15 residents between Mairehau Road and Prestons Road. Mr Rich told the committee that all the residents had considerable trouble with septic tanks and the difficulties were compounding. Conditions were unhygienic, to say the least.

He said the economics of providing a sewer for the area north of Burwood Hospital should be studied in view of proposals by the North Canterbury Hospital Board to connect the hospital to the sewerage system. The committee said that the petition supported by Mr Rich was the second received from residents in the area in the last two years. Last year the board had agreed that if the Hospital Board ran its sewer along Burwood Road to Mairehau Road properties along the route would be given connections.