LEVEL GROUND MADE FROM GULLIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 6

LEVEL GROUND MADE FROM GULLIES

Rubbish Disposal On Bradford System

PLAY AREAS OF FUTURE

The Bradford tip system of rubbish disposal is serving Wellington well. At Karori, just below the reservoir reserve, there is an example of it, where portion of a deep ravine, some ..00 yari.» Ion"- has -been almost completely title l in with the city’s refuse, and that without causing the slightest unpleasantness to the residents of the locality. It was intended to close this tip two or three years ago, and to commence the worn of converting the area into sports grounds for that part of the city. However the shortage of labour consequent on the war, and the greater necessity for more urgent jobs, prevented that being done, and gave the area more time for settlement. Then came the earth quakes of last year and the necessity for some convenient place to receive the spoil and brickwork of shattered chimneys and walls, so tipping continued, and the site is still available for approved spoil. What is patent to all beholders is the splendid area of land that hns been created out of the combination of refuse and clean spoil. sandwiched m the approved Bradford manner. This system may now be seen in full, operation at Liardet Street, -but on an even greater scale. Not far southwindfrom the Winter Show grounds, the Town Belt is split by a big gully, running north and south, followed on the western side by Liardet Street, a thoroughfare used to connect two parts of M elliiigton South. , . . Five years ago this gully was seized upon as a desirable place for a Bradford tip to serve the greater part ot southern Wellington. The stream, which in winter-time meandered along the bottom of the gully, was from 30 to 40 feet ibelow the level of Liardet Street, and the gully itself was of varying breadth, widening as it trended southward. So much use has -been made of this tip that the northern half of the gully has been filled in to the level of Liardet Street, and southward the filling shelves away so that the refuse carts can reach the tipping point. But Liardet Street is not to be the final level of this area of land. The present Liardet Street is doomed. It is to be covered in completely, and another road some 50 feet .higher up the western bank is to take its place. The level area to be created will provide the largest sports ground in .Wellington, and that m a location very handy to the pity. Another enterprise of a'like nature has already been started. At a recent sale of land the City Council was fortunate in being able to purchase from the Merry estate some 42 acres of hill-and-dale alongside the Houghton Bay Road in the Melrose district for £1350. This land in part consists of a long gully, in places contiguous to the road, which lends itself to the purposes of a Bradford tip. Here again is another prospective sportsground, to be created in a district where there is practically no flat land for the purpose.