NELSON SEWAGE SYSTEM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 7

NELSON SEWAGE SYSTEM.

: . , tB» T«loWraph.-Prii«« AeeoclellooJ ! . ';::■ ~ , •„:.:, Nelson, December 20. ■■ Mr. Atchoson. Smith, /the 'Nelson :■ resident drainage engineer,.. in a report ■to tbo City Council, traverses the Health, Department's strictures concerning the" construction of' tho drainage works; He points out that the 1 Department inspector mistook tMdottblo'ejectors for single ones,'mistook the Britannia Heights sewer tor tho tyakefield Quay sower, estimated the flow,in one instapce from an eight-inch pipe, instead of a sii-inch pipe, mistook tho ventilation cavities in the'> manholes for constructional defects, jmd, finally,, that the eeptio'tank effluent land by-passes ' ■■ alike 'emph ithree-quarters of aiinile,from the tank into the permanent waters of the harbour, the'sewage from the old sewage -works, emptying-into themouth .'of...the' Maitai, and also'into permanent deep water.?-Ho points out that since April' last.: year,-, on a 6pccial resolution of the councilj.'a Health Department officer has been, engaged on inspection and testing the 6ewors, with retrospective : :powers,— that: the Cambra Street sewer so greatly condemned, had been so' inspected for three .chains .last September • and that the council had paid over \£3oo to the Department's officer and his assistants for such inspection. ■VY:;'-'V";':V;.:"; ; V<V.'-..V .;">■'.: ','-, : ;•. The council will Bhortly! consider the. drainago engineer's report, to-ascertain if it will comply with his request to call, in Mr. ilea-' tayer,: designer: of the scheme, or other independent expert,' to judge: between him and tho Health Department , <?■•*-■ .'.}';■■■.'*.■:■>;.'