Burwood Road Sewer Must Await Review

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 18

Burwood Road Sewer Must Await Review

The laying of a sewer in Burwood Road will not be considered by the Christchurch Drainage Board until the Regional Planning Authority makes its review of the urban fence. This decision was reached by the board at its meeting last evening, when the Waimairi County Council asked if the board would consider the work with its 1968-69 estimates.

The engineer (Mr P. J. McWilliam) said that the indications were that part of Burwood Road would become urban. It would be preferable to await the outcome of the urban fence review, and at that time allocate priorities for the sewering of all new areas that became urban. The Waimairi County Council also asked about drainage prospects for land north of Briggs Road. Mr McMillan said that detailed work on the diversion of Dudley Creek could not be undertaken for some time without delaying projects which had already been authorised. The diversion would cost about $600,000, with a further $70,000 to $140,000 (depending on estuary control) for work in the region of Horse(shoe Lake.

“The magnitude of the job is such that it would have to be undertaken by way of loan at some future date,” he said. The board referred two other suburban projects to its priorities committee for estimates committee consideration.

One concerned Pyne, Gould’s drain, serving about 1000 acres west of Waimairi Road. Mr McWilliam proposed that $lO,OOO be spent to increase its capacity. Similar work, to cost $2500, was suggested for the Paparua main drain, serving 2400 acres north-west of the Main South Road, and particularly the Middlepark Road, Epsom Road, Carmen Road and Racecourse Road areas. Subsidies.—A sub-commit-tee was set up to report on subsidies to be paid by the board to help residents on the lower side of Panorama Road to make pumped connections to the sewer. Mr T. D. Flint opposed fie proposal. Relief.—The work would relieve flooding at the Sockburn overbridge on the Main South Road, said Mr McWilliam, when the board authorised the calling of tenders for a piped drain from Sockburn School to Canterbury Street, at an estimated cost of $25,000.