WORK ON SEWERAGE OUTFALL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1933, Page 2

WORK ON SEWERAGE OUTFALL

DEPENDENCE ON TIDE LESSENED. The work on the sewerage outfall in the sea off Eliot Street, New Plymouth, is going steadily ahead. Spring tides are again in evidence this week and a further dam has been sunk to enable the laying of four more pipes. Work has gone ahead steadily. Using both the low tides, two shifts have been driving the sheet piling for the new steel dam. This sheet piling interlocks, and the driving was accomplished, much more easily than was anticipated, the steel being forced into the sea bed up to a depth of two feet six inches. There will be some seepage through the joints in the piling, but it is not expected that any trouble will be experienced. Tow, sawdust and clay will be used, to block the small leaks that may occur, and the spoil from the excavation, which is deposited on the sea side of the dam, will help. The moon was full on Thursday and. the best tide will occur to-day or tomorrow. With the steel dam in use, the work will not be so dependent as previously on the state of the tide. With favourable conditions it was hoped to have this section of the work completed by Monday, but a leak has been struck, whicji may delay the excavation and consequently the laying of the pipes.