Drainage problems at Parklands
A high water table, and ground-water seepage, are causing trouble for the Christchurch Drainage Board in the Parklands residential area of Waimairi County. Considerable filling material would be needed to meet the board’s ground level requirement for one subdivision — Merritt-Beaz-ley’s Landale Farm — the works committee has been told.
Surveyors of the subdivision objected to the earthworks requirement, saying that field-tile drains could be put in at less cost. Either filling or field tiles are needed to protect road surfaces from water damage. So far, board staff have resisted tiles because such drains would have to be maintained by the board. It had never been considered that such drainage would be used in all roads of a subdivision to allow housing development near the water table level, said the board. “It looks as though there
could be many kilometres of these roads with field-tile drains,” saiij the deputy engineer (Mr H. P. Hunt). The board is caught between two pressures, because its normal subdivis’on level is not high enough in this case to satisfy Waimairi County that the water table is being kept below road formation level.
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Press, 19 August 1978, Page 21
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