PARNELL DRAINAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11148, 22 August 1899, Page 3

PARNELL DRAINAGE.

TO THE EDITOR. Shv--For tho lost two months the Mayor and Council of Parnell have been preaching and instilling, into the minds of the burgesses of Parnell the danger of typhoid fever arising from imperfect drainage. Yet the Parnell Council have determined to extend the sewer in St. George's Bay from high water to low water by means of an open channel or ditch out into the rock. This sewer drains a much larger number of houses than any other sewer in Parnell, and will be very much increased by the Balfour-street sewerage. After low water, when the tide begins to flow, the tide will back up this sewerage in the proposed open channel, and make it into a sort of cistern. If the statements made by the Mayor and some of the councillors are true, there will be considerable danger, of typhoid to the children who come from many parts of the Borough of Parnell to play on St. George's Bay Beach, as I contend that sewerage is doubly dangerous , when it has been confined and fermented in drain pipes. The rocks at the eastern end of St. George's Bay are free from sand, showing there is a scour of tide there, and a good fall for this drain could have been obtained by raising the present drain pipes at the foot of St. George's Bay Road. The mouth of the present sewer is not far from this rock stratum. For tho benefit of the whole of the inhabitants of the Borough of Parnell, the Mayor and Council ought to reoonsider this extension of drainage.—l am, etc., John Savage. Manukau Road, Parnell, August 21, 1899.