FLOOD DAMAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 July 1916, Page 2

FLOOD DAMAGE

i CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT. : At last night's meeting of the Cic.y Council the following report on the damage done by the recent Hood wis presented by Mj- J. CI. Littlejohn, City Engineer : •Streets aad Footways: Up to Saturday the woiki was confined to repair of Collingwood street and fomc patching on Gloucester and Vanguard streets.' Since Saturday the whole staff. | together with pevernl additional men. ; have been engaged in repairing' the flood I i damage reported below, i Drainage. — .Matters proceeded as usual ! until the Hood. So far as has been asi certained the pressure and air main.-* Across the, Maltai at the foot, of Trafalgar street are broken and the sewers in "Erin street at Manuka and Bronti streets are carried away. The first-men-tioned breaka.se is a serious matter, and will be very difficult to reinstate. I am joining up the air main by a. pipe line across the bridge in order to get the .Collingwood' street f jector, which takes I the drainage from the whole of the | Wood area, into operation again. The breakages in Erin street and also the inundation of the centre of the tow. flooded! t'he sewers of No. 2 area, causing the sewage to flow back tlirouirh the private "drains on portions of the city that were- not Hooded. Water.—The main in Waimea street ■was cut in two places and found to be in a very igood condition. Further investigation of the mains will be proceeded with as soon as flood damage is repaired. The reticulation from the weir is badlv silted with mud. moss and debris, "which will be difficult to remove from the service pipes. I Flood Damage.—The. serious damage, so far as the -Council is concerned, consists of the out of the sewers •in Erin street, the damage to the pumping mains in Trafalgar street, and a large slip on the Rocks Road. The footbridges at Ha>:dy Park, Alton street and at the mouth of the Brook .stream in Milton Grove are washed awav. The tension rods of the Trafalgar street footbridge were carried away bv the debris coming down tli? river, and the structure is none too sate. Brook street at the. (-Hen stream is f washed out. leaving bare room for a [.vehicle to pass. Otherwise t'he damage I consisted chiefly of mud and silt deposited on the streets. ! \ track was opeued through the slip i on the Rocks Road yesterday, and the j road is azain open for traffic, j Additional "hands have been put on to make urgent repairs where necessary. I estimate the cost roughly at £SOO.