CITY WATER SUPPLY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 March 1908, Page 2

CITY WATER SUPPLY.

REPORT OiT"the ROUING RIVER. The appended report was furnished by the iMigineer (Air W. A. Smith) to tne City Council last evening in connection with the Boding River as a source of an additional water supply for the city : — "In conformity with a resolution c£ your Council, I have visited the Rclmg jhivcr vnA gauged its (low at a pi;i:it yiO feet übove sea level, with ■ the result that I found it capable of delivering during a prolonged drought 1, .547,000 ga:lons a day, or sufficient to allow of a draw off of 120 gallons a head a day (which is the record draw off for i\clson) for a population of 11,225 inhabitants, or in conjunction with the present supply 1,940,000, which on the same basis is capable of affording a supply to 16,166 inhabitants. The water shows very little trace of mineral matter. I * have been unable to get the Health Department's analysis forward in time for this meeting of your Council. I have not gone into the question of route or cost of the scheme, as I confined my investigations strictly to the minute in my business book. Should the Council desire the above information I will be pleased to receive their instructions in this connection." Cr Pettit remarked that it was very gratifying to learn from the report that the Boding River was carrying so much water at tho time of tho K/i---gineer's visits