A BIG PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11

A BIG PROBLEM

NAPIER'S' DRAINAGE

INVITATION TO MR HART

Mr. G.-C. Hart, the City Engineer is leaving for Napier to-morrow a I the invitation of the Commissioners to ad vise upon the very big problem of restoring Napier's drainage and water works systems. Over a considerable part of the town water supplies have been restored and in some parts the underground drainage system is in commission, but in such areas as Napiei South, where tho, raising of the ground has seriously interfered with the levels of the, sewers, there is a big job ahead. Mr. Hart lias already been over the ground and given general advise, but the Commissioners are now asking foi his opinion upon details of restoration. Mr. Hart's experience in drainage and water supply schemes is very wide indeed,1 and has included- that gained from tho positions of Chief Assistant Engineer to^ the Birmingham, Tame and Boa Drainage =Board, which had control of an area with ;a population of over a million people, officer in charge of the drainage of Leeds, where works costing a million and a half pounds were designed and carried out by him. |and in Salford, Lancashire, where the 'first bacterial, filter system upon a large scale, for a quarter of a million people, was constructed. Owing to the necessity of securing fresh and amended data at Napier, said Mr. Hart to-day, it might be some time beforo detailed work, could bo done at Napier. At present no one knew to what extent the town's services had boon disrupted nor what reconditioning or amending would be required.