Cost of Cam job put at $176,000
The North Canterbun Catchment Board will call a meeting later this month of the Rangiora Borough Council, the Rangiora County Council, the Kaiapoi Borough Council and local branches of Federated Farmers to discuss the proposed Cam River improvement scheme, and its financing. The scheme, which will cost SI 74.000. is designed to alleviate flooding and improve drainage in the catchment area of the Cam River. A report on the river, prepared by the Catchment Board says that it is already overloaded, and will need to be improved because of the further development of Rangiora The work will be done in six stages, beginning with the replacement of Cox’s Bridge, for an estimated cost of $20,000. The subsequent stages will ■ be channel enlargements; downstream of the bridge. I and upstream to the junction of the North Brook and South Brook, channel enlargements to the two latter streams and the clearance of willows.
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