DRAINAGE WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 10

DRAINAGE WORK

LONG SECTION THROUGH

DRUMMOND STREET TO

MARTIN SQUARE

Substantial progress is being made with the driving of the drainage tunnel which, when completed, will run from the corner of Adelaide Road and Drummond Street to Tinakori Road, with a further extension northwards at some future 'time to Johnsonville. Shafts have been sunk at various points along the tunnel line so that the work can be tackled in multiple drives' working towards each other under the exact guidance of the engineers and surveyors to meet as precisely as possible in grade and direc-. tion. » Last night a party of councillors went down the shaft at Drummond Street and came up at Martin Square, walking through over 3000 feet of tunnel, in part finished with concrete floor and ceiling and bricked sides and in part in the. rough working drive. The electrically operated plant which will replace the steam sewerage pumping plant at the corporation yard should arrive about the end of this month and can be installed in the extension to the old pumping station without delay as the building and foundations will by then be completed. That will be the beginning of the end« of the destructor, for the whole of the city refuse will be disposed of by the Bradford tip system. This will mean a considerable extension of tipping, which is at present mainly done at Chaytor Street, on the Defence Reserve at Seatoun, where a big area of waste land is being reclaimed as a level area which will later serve as a parade ground or sports reserve, and, for certain types of refuse only, in the reclamation in hand adjoining the Kilbirnie recreation ground. Several more tipping points will have to be developed.

The clean-up of the Clyde Quay frontage of the yard will be commenced in the near future, the plan being to develop this area with shrubs and grass, to conform with similar treatment of the wide cycle track past the Boat Harbour, but as parking space will be in demand during the Exhibition period it is proposed in the meantime to set aside as a public park the strip of land which will be cleared when the yard frontage is set back.