THE DRAINAGE SCHEME.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 5010, 10 March 1877, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE DRAINAGE SCHEME.

.•9 THI ED’TOE OT THE EITTELTOS TIMES. E:*,—The Committee in replying to Mr Jacobsen, regret that he has cot had the courtesy to first find out »hat the scheme was, before giving the ratepayers so mt-iy erroneous statements concerning it, mis* leading the public, and then proceeding to destroy a ?hest of his own creation. ■ . It ii proposed to bank up and lock the Avon and Hestheote to high water mark, to reclain the etttary, to shat ap the Sumner bar, to lock the canal troa the sewer, ted to deliver the sewage on to the last reach of a canal locked oil from both the r.rere, and from the canal itself: to make two i'-c'u, each 70 feet wide, in the solid rocks, and to keep the whole volume of the two river* together w;te the sewage and storm water constantly run* meg to sea, and to empty the last reach entirely i’-Vj the tbb tide twice daily, the sea never again Umg allowed to pass Sumner. lie statements of Mr Jacobsen are corrected thu»—We do not pollute any streams of water. rood tides being outaide of the rocks, never taa torn* in to force filth, Ac., Ac., Ac. The harbour's mouth at the top) of the highest spnog-tide haring always fresh water runningout

ex* close up. It is not promoted to clear tho rocks away, but to thro© locks in them, which Mr Jaoob* admit* will give us Vi feet of water. The Estuanr being abolished, and the bar iillcd -?i there will be no water to wash the town ol htimnef away. In conclusion, any one who baa steamed over h-inner liar in a heavy swell, and has lost two st&aupon it (the Planet and the Moa, to wit) will •’■fccvgaiae ht once that piles and sUmes on Sumner nr* tho dream of a man who knows nothing at all about it. It is a live quicksand—the best thing bo done is to close it up, and Bend the water through & solid rock channel. . The very fact that Mr Jacobsen thinks the plan of the Committee similar to that of Mr Carruthcrs show* that he does not know what he is talking sh>u’.. y OT iuHtauco, the Drainage Board have tenders for a low-level sewer, whereon by the pipe system—and gathering the h'l’dds at the sunaco—that same newer would be at a high level, and tar cheeper, of coutbo, U Mr Jacobsen really desires to benefit the d*Bhe might calculate this item What Biz© ‘-•'•jMiel will be required to carry the Avon and united ? fhe Committee will bo glad to furnish full infortui U) the plan to anyone who is courteous. Tho answer of the Drainage Board U not yet rec*iv©d. Signed for tho Committee. J, W. TREADWELL, Hon, Sec.