DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 17

DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE BOARD

MONTHLY REPORTS At the meeting of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board on Wednesday night the Works Committee will report as follows;Authority has been granted the drainage engineer to proceed with the following works, which will be a charge for the authorisation out of loan account for the current year, viz.:— (a) Completion of Argyle street stormwater sewer at an estimated cost of £2OO. (b) Extension of the Leckhampton court stormwater sewer at an estimated cost of £350. (c) Construction of 12-inch stormwater sewer from a point south-west of Hereford street, Kaikorai, and extending to the recently-constructed stormwater sewer in Taieri road, at an estimated cost of £477. (This work is especially urgeht owing to complaints of flooding in Kaikorai Valley road.) (d) Construction of 9-inch and 12-ihch stormwater sewers in Peel street, Aitken. street, Haig street, and Macnee street at an estimated cost of £IOOO. There is at present no stormwater system in this area, and trouble is being experienced in the locality during times of heavy rain. MUD TANKS. Authority has been granted the drainage engineer, to proceed with the construction of mud tanks in St. Kilda at (a) the junction of Richardson street and Chapman street, and (b) the junction of Driver street and Dalgety street, at an estimated cost of £39. In order to eliminate the open gutter across Queen street at the intersection with Regent, road, authority has been granted the drainage engineer to proceed with the construction of a double No. 1 mud tank on the north-western corner of the intersection, at an estimated cost of £4O. This work will permit of the open channel across the street, which has been complained of as being a nuisance to vehicular traffic,‘being done away with. COLLAPSED CULVERT. The works involved as the result of the collapse in May, 1932, of the old wooden culvert under Whitby street, at the foot of Durham street, causing a subsidence in the roadway and the collapse of a portion of the board’s foul and stormwater sewers, have now been completed. A line of old culvert has been relaid with 12-inch pipes, and necessary repairs effected to the foul and the stormwater sewers damaged by the collapse. The culvert has now been incorporated with, and forms part of, the board’s stormwater sewerage system for the area and, in addition, two piped natural watercourses are connected to same. The cost of the work amounted to £652 15s lid, which will be shared by the Drainage Board and the City Corporation in the following proportions:—Drainage Board, two-thirds. £435 3s lid; City Corporation, oue-tbird, £217 12s.