WATER PURIFICATION
PLANT IN INVERCARGILL SEVEN FILTERS INSTALLED £20,00(1 EXPENDITURE Householders of Invercargill may now look forward to a steady improvement in the city water supply, as the City Council’s purification plant at the water works has been installed and is partly in operation. The contract price o’f the filtration plant was £14,1011, and in addition the council will spend £OOOO or £7OOO in alterations to mains and buildings, so that the total cost to the city of the water treatment plant will be about £20,000 The plant, which is the most modern of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, consists of seven filters, four being installed at the pumping station at the power-house, and three at the waterworks. The ultimate capacity of the plant will be 2,000.000 gallons a day.
Although the plant is only partly in operation an improvement in the quality of the water already has been reported, and it is expected that when it is in full operation about May the quality of Invercargill water will compare favourably with any in New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 8
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177WATER PURIFICATION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 8
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