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Christchurch Drainage Board (1876-1989)

 Organization

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

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S56
Scope and Contents Papers collected by former Christchurch City Council employee Bill Williams. Includes CCC – Estar base - microfiche, The rebuilding of Cathedral Square: Christchurch City Council planning information booklet No. 8. (pamphlet), Victoria Square redevelopment stage 2. Official opening, Sunday 8 October 1989. (pamphlet), Christchurch Drainage Board: Appendix II Quotation for the supply of sludge gas compressors; Appendix III Quotation for the supply of bar screens, Occupational...
Dates: 1967-1989

Christchurch City Council: Environmental Policy and Planning Photographic Materials

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S48
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1950s-2000s

Christchurch Drainage Board Common Seal, c.1875-1989

 File
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S86/6
Scope and Contents Christchurch Drainage Board Common Seal including screws used to secure the Seal to a table. The Seal is in two parts, the press and the large handle.Also includes a metal plaque which reads Common Seal Christchurch District Drainage Board 1875-1989 and a wooden block plaque which reads Christchurch Drainage Board 1875-1989. Dies made to commemorate C.D.B Centenary 1975. Medals struck to commemorate the demise of the board 1989. Both of these plaques were removed from a large...
Dates: c.1875-1989

Christchurch Drainage Board: Contracts and Tenders

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S23
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1876-1990

Christchurch Drainage Board: Correspondence

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S24
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1875-1990

Christchurch Drainage Board: Maps and Plans

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S65
Scope and Contents Maps and plans largely created by the Christchurch Drainage Board relating to the development of sewage and stormwater networks across the Christchuch Drainage District. Includes a large number of technical drawings relating to the levels and cross sections for different drains and sewers across the city. Also includes plans for pumping stations and for those at the Sewage Farm. Block plans created by the Christchurch Drainage Board relating to properties in Lyttelton and for...
Dates: 1862-1989

Christchurch Drainage Board: Memorandum of Transfers and Deeds

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S138
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1871-1996

Christchurch Drainage Board: Minute Books of the Board and Committees

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S13
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the Christchurch Drainage Board. Some of these minutes have been indexed. Includes minutue books of committees reporting to the Board.

Dates: 1876-1989

Christchurch Drainage Board: Photographs and Media

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S137
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1895-1989

Christchurch Drainage Board: Records

 Series
Identifier: CCC/ARC/S30
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1875-1914