Board refuses to improve sewer
The Christchurch Drainage Board has decided not to improve its Brooklands-Spencerville sewerage scheme to allow for residential development of rural land next to Stewarts Gully. The improvement is wanted by the Waimairi District Council and M. R. Carter, Ltd, which own land next to the Stewarts Gully settlement. They would like improvement to allow for future residential zoning of their land.
The board’s chief engineer, Mr Peter Hunt, told the board last evening that the improvement, including larger-size pipes than originally planned, would present several technical difficulties for the board.
Increasing the pipe sizes from Stewarts Gully
to Parklands was estimated to cost an extra $265,000, he reported. “Pipes already laid at Spencerville, together with a length of existing sewer in Queenspark Drive, would need to be relaid,” Mr Hunt said. “The town-planning im-' plications of making allowance for such a large area of rural land are serious.
“The board would be acting outside its policy and in direct conflict with the policy of the Canterbury United Council.”
The board has also decided not to embark on a programme of piping the city’s open drains.
Instead it would continue to assess the merits of piping any open drain brought to its notice, said the chairman, Mr Newton Dodge.
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Press, 18 December 1986, Page 8
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