MOUNT ROSKILL WATER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 2

MOUNT ROSKILL WATER

AN INADEQUATE SUPPLY DANGEROUS LACK OF PRESSURE “FROM a fire-fighting point of view, the position reveals a disastrous state of affairs ana on® that must immediately be taken in hand by the board members. Such was the introductory comment made in an extended report P r ® ser " t to Mount Roskill Road Board iasi evening by a member, Mr. L- A. Toze . who is also chairman of the Mou Roskill Fire Board. . Mr. Tozer had obtained frol ?“ fire brigade superintendent a the district, showing the size of water mains in each street, ® n . ( “ hlp various pressures of water at important parts of the district, the exception of five thoroughfare*. the whole of the district was r* la ted with three-inch main®,'!* lo . > mediately after the war at a P® when four-inch mains were not p curable. _.,v. He recommended the immediate 8 stitution of four-inch mains, in ■* western area there existed no ie than seven dead-ends, all seriou . affecting the flow and pressure water in the mains. These dead-® should be immediately removed, replaced with a four-inch main. _ A test of static pressure in 33 pa of the 5,000 acres comprising tn f.Tl v trict showed that only three sol plugs give an adequate pressure fire-fighting purposes. Such t^ st * intg made in the most populated pom of the district, and the rural n (including the whole of Hillsboro s area) are in a shocking con tires Should a fire occur in such P there was only the remotest cn of property being saved. An inlet at the Avondale bound ß **’ fed by gravitation, was ab ® o vi*r>p"s useless for fire-fighting; and at ti there was not enough pressure for domestic purposes; and that the whole of the western area, pressure must be increased at ■ 100 per cent By connection Mount Eden the great desiaerauji could be obtained, and irrespectiy the extra cost of 3d per 1,000 t he strongly recommended that Md Roskill. in those areas, should becou nected with Mount Eden. After into very close details, with 11111 ful information, Mr. Tozer concl with the caution that the whole m ter must be taken in hand and in way shelved for future considers. * The ratepayer, contributing his s , _ to the cost of such public firstly expects a fair standard of of “efficiency when the matter ox and property, and all he possesses at stake, and he urged the board *- forthwith tackle its bounden duty ( achieve such objects.