PROGRESSIVE INGLEWOOD.
Successful Municipal Works
The Inglewood water supply and drainage scheme has just been completed. The ratepayers borrowed £9000 ior water, £3000 for drainage and £2000 for street improvements, and the work has been completed at a considerable saving on the engineer's estimates, the total cost of the water supply being £7050, and the drainage £2001. The water is brought from a point ."> : j miles from the town, and 3Goft above it, by Sin steel mains, giving a maximum hydrostatic head of 155
lbs to the square inch, and is distributed through cast iron reticulation pipes. The sewerage is disposed of by the septic tank system. The engineer, Mr L. G. I. Spencer, in his final report states:—" To summarise the water supply and drainage schemes, the Council has been able to provide the ratepayers with sulHcient water to meet the requirements of eight times the present population, and drainage, when the sewers have been extended, to serve about twice the population, for about SO and (55 per cent, respectively of the amount borrowed for those purposes, in a period of seven months work, which I think the Council can claim, without being egotistic, to bo rather unusual in municipal experience."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8428, 19 April 1906, Page 6
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202PROGRESSIVE INGLEWOOD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8428, 19 April 1906, Page 6
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