River plan to take eight months
A flood-relief and drain-j j age-improvement scheme for 1 I the Halswell River catch-1 ! ment will take six to eight 1 , months to prepare, says the 1 chairman of the North (Canterbury Catchment) i Board's rivers control andl ■ drainage committee (Mr M. r iJ. O. Dixon). ( A report in “The Press” of( (June 28 said that the plan,, ( which will show several : alternatives ranging from j floodwater removal during a|> (storm to removal four days (, (after a storm, would take), only a month to prepare. 1 The board’s chairman vDrl, W. R. Holmes) says that I ( (for the final plan to! Ibe of real value to the i ( people of the area it will | have to include a com- . | prehensive appraisal of the ( (effects of run-off from the ' ' hill portion of the catchment, and an assessment of ( | cost and the means of fund- 1 ling the scheme. * 1 j It is a good many years (; (since the board has been in-i* ( volved in such a large * scheme, and it is an “ex- * citing prospect, he says. l_
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