WATER SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 89, 12 October 1931, Page 9

WATER SUPPLY

EASTBOURNE'S SCHEME

PROVISION FOR OTHER

BAYS

Under the agreement between the Hutt and Eastbourne Borough Councils for a water supply, Eastbourne has power to supply areas outside its own boundaries. It has been suggested that it would be opportune to arrange for that supply now to the bays which are under the jurisdiction of the Hutt County Council, especially as one of them, Day's Bay, has been called upon by the Board of Health to provide a water and drainage scheme. That requisition was issued at the same time as the requisition to the Eastbourne Borough Council. The chairman of the Hutt County Council (Mr. D. R. lioggard), when seen to-day in regard to the supply to the districts concerned, said that he was awaiting plans-which Mi/Fisher, Mayor of Eastbourne, had promised to show him. When those plans were available he would call meetings of the ratepayers concerned, with a view to deciding to what extent the bays could participate in the scheme. Different considerations affected the different localities, although all were under the jurisdiction of rthe Hutt County, from Graeefield to Windy Point. Point Howard had neither water nor any means of sewage disposal. The level area of Lowry Bay had its own water supply, and its own sewerage scheme, but neither would be adequate to cope with a large increase in the population. York Bay had no sewerage scheme, but most of the houses were supplied with high-pressure water from the local streftms. Day's Bay residents were supplied with water by the City Council from two dams in Williams Park at an annual charge of £2 per house, but there wag no scheme of sewage disposal, and the majority of the residents had their own septic tanks.