Kumutoto Stream

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• Adds an August 1873 bursting event for Kumutoto and documents that local streams were used as sewers before the 1890s, contributing to harbour pollution.

Add: In August 1873 the stream again burst and tore up the road at the bottom of Woodward Street Prior to the mayoralship of Sir Francis Bell in the 1890s Kumutoto and other streams within the city were used as sewers by early Wellingtonians contributing to the pollution of Wellington Harbour In July 1896 another portion of the culvert collapsed following heavy rain leaving. Add: Prior to the mayoralship of Sir Francis Bell in the 1890s Kumutoto and other streams within the city were used as sewers by early Wellingtonians contributing to the pollution of Wellington Harbour.

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