SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20175, 8 February 1929, Page 12

SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

OVERCOMING THE TROUBLE.

INVESTIGATION BY EXPERTS.

SUGGESTION OF THE MAYOR.

The opinion that the trouble arising from tho discharge of sewage at tho Orakei outfall should be made the subject of expert investigation was expressed yesterday by tho Mayor, Mr. Baildon, who is also chairman of the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board.

Mr. Baildon said that since the outfall was constructed, tho population had increased very considerably. Ho thought, however, that tho most important aspect of the question was tho effect of the harbour works which had been carried out since the inception of the Orakei scheme. Before tho eastern breakwater was built the ebb tide swept down the harbour past Point Resolution, and there, with water from Hobson Bay, went in a direct stream past Orakei Point out of tho harbour. Tho breakwater and tho railway line and road across Hobson Bay had altered the flow .so that it now appeared to carry on past Orakei down to tho beaches at St. Heliers and Kohimarama.

Mr. Baildon said he had been informed that at tho end of the effluent pipe from the storage tanks there was a reef which checked the flow of the discharge, and that if tho length of the pipe were doubled so that it was carried past the reef tho problem might be solved, lhat was a matter for experts to decide, but lie agreed that something should be done to overcome the nuisance.