CITY WATER SUPPLY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 9

CITY WATER SUPPLY.

' Sir; —I "halve read with interest "f'na assertion's put forward by Mr. o. ' A'. Whitney' regaining the Waitakerci and Nillotnpn s catchment area. Possibly * Sir. Whitney hus not seen tho WaitaiTcrei watershed • aud dam, and by .his' 1 corres-pondence-does not see into know' rnur.h about, it. The city fathers arc about " 1 o raise the wall 16ft., which will lipid sowo '100,060,000 gallons in excess of .what, it now contains. 'The /area is ndt 'so' sleep as" mentioned, and the water/ is clear and pure, running over" stony bottom v ni the creeks which run for several' miles, and would fill two or three dams of 'tin* present 'size during the winter months I was the first to show Mr. Muftro V^i"son over the present route and lttive'-vc-■sidad- on the-verge of the rangcr-tliis' last 33 years. Mr. Whitney • writes of the Tanpo water. Possibly it is good'.' riut T should say th« • engineer's -estimate' : i* very near the mark : £6,500,000. •'" > The cost of buying the land through which the pipeline wquld run would,'tttk'o a considerable amount and very dear" land might-have to ba bought • for-TfesteeVflis. There, are, I believe, no iron 'tA' steel pipes .that will; stand, the chemicals?: if brought through or !V">r Eolorna.x. t-As for ~bringing water ft" - Mercer/ it--wohld be sheer .madness, as the sewerage frttm tbe,,f;j.,nns, fjiqlgriasi and towns enipty into t-hof Wa'k.a,tQ rt ,i'livw,v..);v: The -.only .source,-.of snpjpy, from Taup9 would he for the Government to borrow money to construct tho pipe-line, and sell the water to.--whoever might buy.- the -same as the snburhs<>do from the": city. A. Christian, Swanson, March 17, 1926. —. < -rr;