NEW SEWER IN USE

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32194, 13 January 1970, Page 5

NEW SEWER IN USE

Health Hazard Disappearing Signs at the Scarborough end of Sumner Beach warning bathers of the danger of sewage pollution would be removed this week, said the Chief City Health Inspector (Mr A. P. Miltborpe). “The possibility of health hazards in the area was removed when the sewage was diverted on Friday at 10 a.m. The area will purify itself over the week-end , so the beatch will be safe by Monday,” he said at the weekend. Sewage from the Sumner, St Andrew's Hill and Mount Pleasant areas, which had been discharged at Sumner Beach for SO years, now flows through a chain of pumping stations to the sewagetreatment works in Bromley, said the deputy chief engineer of the Christchurch Drainage Board (Mr H. P. Hunt). The four main pumping stations were at Woolston, McCormacks Bay, Mancks Bay and Scarborough. The new sewerage system, which cost $700,000 and took nearly three years to Construct, was completed before Christmas, but , could not be brought into operation earlier because of ' technical problems at the Woolston trade-waste station, said Mr Hunt ‘ At later dates the sewage i from Heathcote Valley and > Taylor’s Mistake will be con- ’ nected to the Sumner sys- ' tern, he said.