Christchurch Drainage Board (1876-1989)
Dates
- Existence: 1876 - 1989
Biography
The Christchurch Drainage Board was created in 1875 by The Christchurch District Drainage Act, 1875. The purpose of the Board was "to make provision for the improvement of the drainage of the City of Christchurch, and the lands surrounding the said city." The Drainage Board had a wide ranging brief, and established sewer systems, waste treatment, management of storm water, drains, and rivers, across Christchurch, and in the surrounding boroughs, and county council areas.
The first meeting was held on the 4th January 1876.
Control of drainage was passed from the Avon Road Board to the Christchurch Drainage Board when it was established in 1876.
The Christchurch Board of Health was initially under the provisions of the Christchurch Drainage Board. Public health stopped being administered by the Drainage Board in 1885.
The Christchurch Drainage Board amalgamated with Christchurch City Council in 1989.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Christchurch City Council: Bill Williams Collected Papers
Christchurch City Council: Environmental Policy and Planning Photographic Materials
Aerial photographs, buildings (including commercial and residential properties) and street scene photographs for central Christchurch and wider suburbs.
Includes those collected by Bruce King and those relating to the Christchurch Drainage Board.
Includes a folder of photographs of Shop Dwellings, City Info Handbook information booklets and an extensive amount of slides and negative strips.
Christchurch Drainage Board Common Seal, c.1875-1989
Christchurch Drainage Board: Contracts and Tenders
Contract documentation for services and maintenance to be delivered for the Christchurch Drainage Board. Some these include detailed specifications for work to be completed and associated plans.
Includes Registers of Contracts which are an index to all the contracts within this sequence.
Also includes two volumes of tenders submitted to the Christchurch Drainage Board for works.
Christchurch Drainage Board: Correspondence
Correspondence inwards and outwards to and from the Christchurch Drainage Board. Includes a separate sequence of subject arranged correspondence and indexes for both the inwards and outwards correspondence sequences.
Christchurch Drainage Board: Maps and Plans
Christchurch Drainage Board: Memorandum of Transfers and Deeds
Christchurch Drainage Board Memorandum of Transfers and deeds. Include those relating to insurance policies, recovery of debt, transfer of easement for land for drains and sewers, memorandums of leases and certificates of titles and memorandums of land transfers and leases.
Christchurch Drainage Board: Minute Books of the Board and Committees
Minute books of the Christchurch Drainage Board. Some of these minutes have been indexed. Includes minutue books of committees reporting to the Board.
Christchurch Drainage Board: Photographs and Media
Sequences of photographs and negatives relating to all aspects of the work of the Christchurch Drainage Board including treatment plants, personnel, equipment, flooding and general works.
Also includes a film titled Cycle of Responsibility created by the Christchurch Drainage Board.
Christchurch Drainage Board: Records
Records of the Christchurch Drainage Board including financial records; annual accounts and reports; acts, bylaws and regulations; records of documents sealed; general files; connection and drainage registers; diaries and notebooks; personnel records; Salaried Staff Association records; E F Scott papers; P J Adams papers; P J Hunt papers and newspaper cuttings.