WATER PLUG GIVES WAY
A plug in one of the small water mains in Hunter street gave out this morning, and a very fine fountain resulted immediately and continued for half an hour or so, while the several valves controlling the flow of water to fhat block ' were being shut. At its best the wate* shot up sixty or. seventy feet, pouring down, almost vertically and ' doing nothing more serious than flooding the roadway and footpath. Remarks were made of "Orongorongo pressure," but this was not anything like Orongorongo pressure. The city pressuro is round about 1201b to the square inch; Orongorongo pressure in the lower levels would be on the 3001b mark, so high that this supply cannot be used direct, but is run into the Karori reservoir, which acts as a pressure reducer as well as storage dam. Should the new main burst anywhere along the Hutt road or on the way to Karori, there will be a really high-class show and a general flooding for a long way round.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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