POWER SUPPLY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 91, 27 January 1928, Page 4

POWER SUPPLY.

THE WAITAKI SCHEME. PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS. The necessity for speeding up, as far as circumstances will permit, the development of the power station on the Waitaki River, in the vicinity of Kurow, is not being lost sight of by the hydro- electricity branch of the Public Works Department. Mr E- T. M. Kissed (Chief Electrical Engineer, Public .Works Department), who passed through Ashburton last evening, after having visited the sites for the dam on the Waitaki, gave a “Guardian” reporter some information regarding the progress of investigations upon the result of which the site for the dam Will'be selected. Three sites are being investigated. Regarding these, Mr Kissel said: “We have practically all the information we need respecting the conditions on shore, but we still require information as to under-water conditions, information to be got only in the bed of the river. This work is being put in hand. The Department has purchased a second drilling plant, which arrived at Kurow on Wednesday. It will be set to work at once, so that the boring operations can he expedited. Until we have the results of the investigations being made in the bed of the river, it will not be possible to decide which of the three sites is the best on which to erect the dam, “In the meantime general preparations, which will apply to whichever site is selected, are being made, and these will help in expediting operations once the site for the dam has been decided upon.”