IRRIGATION SCHEME.
RANGITATA DIVERSION CHANNEL. i GOOD PROGRESS AT ANAMA. Work along the Surrey Hills is making good progress. The machines are now toward the Cavendish end, where they will again be on flat land. A big shelf has been cut far into the hillside, on which the huge channel will he excavated.
At some points springs were tapped, and this hindered the machines, but most Of these have been passed. A workman’s house on the Surrey Hills estate, being in the line of the channel, is being made ready for removal to another site. Trees in the orchard (some 30 acres in extent), are being removed ready for the channel to lie taken through. Pears and plum trees suffer apparently to a. large extent.
A gang of men is no\V constructing a storm water channel a. short distance above the diversion channel. This is to stop water from the hill coming into the big race. The storm water will be flumed over the main channel at convenient points and resume its own natural course clown the hill.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19381202.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 45, 2 December 1938, Page 4
Word Count
178IRRIGATION SCHEME. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 45, 2 December 1938, Page 4
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.