DRAINAGE OF NEW LYNN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 10

DRAINAGE OF NEW LYNN.

DISPOSAL BCHEMEAPPROVED

ARRANGEMENT FOR FIVE YEARS.

A scheme for the disposal of sewage from the New Lynn Town District was approved by the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board last evening. The arrangement, briefly, is that the New Lynn sewage will be discharged into the Avondale Borough Council's sewers, which deliver into the board's main system. An application was' received . from the : New Lynn: Town Bpard .along these - lines; Mr. H. H. Watkins, engineer and secfe*. • tary to the : Drainage • Board, said the scheme provided for a reticulation" sewer ,for a portion of the town .district, gravitating to a pumping station at the. intersection of .Great North ; Road and . Whau Creek. From this point the sewage would be , pumped into., the reticulation sewer system at Avondale,,.which, was already, connected to the Drainage Board's sysTtem. The application could be granted temporarily, as the (low in the Drainage >:Bba.f<J's,• sewer" ;y%ld riot- rfiach' its maximum for considerable time, particularly. •'-In \\the; .'o jfpefc'-. length of- - the main .sewer.The ;;Praiiiage T Board would . not .Jbecpmei inypjvefl' ;\n .any" expenditure by reason of granting the application, and the of; sewage from the .pumpfng. station would, Ho-some extent, he beneficial m. flushing the 'upper length 1 of. the.-; main:'sewerV.v/'.lt.-Jwas stated the Avondale Borough Council had favourably .considered the proposal..- > ',On'-the.; recommendation of the-engineer it was decided to permit the Town Board to 'discharge sewage into , the Drainage 1 Board's sewef^for a period of. five years, .subject .to'., extension, ifrom year to year j»t-<'th'fe:;4isqr.etion of the Drainage Board, -ifce Toww' -pay---an - annual sum equal to 20s for each connection made to its reticulation .system. It is understood that when the main -sewer can no longer carry the flow from New Lynn the sewage from that district will, after treatment, t be discharged into the harbour.