WELLINGTON'S WATER SUPPLY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13428, 20 March 1907, Page 5

WELLINGTON'S WATER SUPPLY.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 19. About 100 feet of pipe bridge over the Hutt River was washed away, and it is roughly estimated that the repairs to the water mains and bridge will take some three weeks. Meanwhile the city will have to rely on the Karori reservoir, which has a storage capacity of 56,000,000 gallons. Roughly speaking, the daily consumption of the city is three and a-half million gallons. It is hoped to reduce this to two millions during the shortage. Already all persons using water for business purposes here hay© been notified ihat the supply is to be cut off or restricted. The city engineer? hopes to be able to meet the difficulty arising from the break in th,e water mains by turning on the supply from the Karori auxiliary reservoir to the higher levels during certain hours of the night.