SEWERAGE SCHEME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 10

SEWERAGE SCHEME

COSTLY PROJECT PLANNED AUCKLAND DRAINAGE BOARD (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 27. Conclusions, based upon recent extensive investigations and tests to determine the most suitable locality in which to discharge sewage from the proposed enlarged drainage area in the southern area of the Auckland metropolitan district, were submitted at a special meeting of the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board. A comprehensive report stated that it was practicable to establish and operate treatment works at Brown's Island to provide for a sewage flow from the southern area without causing any nuisance in the locality. The estimated cost of the original scheme for the southern district was £1,360,000, but the chairman announced that it would now be necessary to add , approximately 15 per cent, to that figure to cover increased costs. The estimate for the northern area, comprising four North Shore boroughs, was £315,000. but the scheme was not dealt with in the report. The chairman gave notice for a later special meeting to adopt the scheme for the southern area.