Kennedy’s Bush Road Sewerage

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 12

Kennedy’s Bush Road Sewerage

Sir,—Of all the attractive hill sites for Christchurch homes from Scarborough round the sunny Port Hills to Tai Tapu, we preferred Kennedy’s Bush Road. We chose a section, that to us was the best of all we had seen, wrote to the Paparu County Council for information, and planned our home. That was as far as we could go: no sewerage system, no septic tank allowed, an old-fashioned small house down tae garden path, of the “specialist” variety. Horrors! We could not, in the 19705, bring up a family in those conditions, nor stand the unbelieving queries of relatives and ribald friends. Why do the Paparua County Council and the Health Department allow it? —Yours, etc., HOME HUNTER. July 9, 1970. [Mr D. H. Warren, chairman of the Paparua County

■ Council, replies: “I would ; agree with your corresponi dent that the hillside served •by Kennedy’s Bush Road ; provides some very attractive i home sites, but unfortunately this area of the county is a rural zone outside the 1 Christchurch Drainage Board’s district, and at pres1 ent is not served by sewers. The thin layer of silt over- : lying the volcanic rock of the i hills does not provide satisfactory soakage for sullage and septic tank effluents, and , in these circumstances the council has decided that to permit the installation of further septic tanks would be i dangerous. Information is, at present, being sought from the Christchurch Drainage Board as to when sewers - might be available and in the meantime a nightsoil collection is also being investigated.”]