SEALING OF LEAKS
LAKE WAIKAREMOANA (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An enormous increase in the storage capacity of the immense natural reservoir of hydro-electric power at Lake Waikaremoana is expected to follow as a result of solving the problem of sealing leaks through the hillside beneath the outfall of the lake. “The progress made in sealing the leaks indicates that,within a year the problem will be solved,” eaid the Hon. R. Semple to-day. ‘The engineers are to be congratulated on the patience and skill with which they have evolved a method of enabling about 45 feet of the depth of Lake Waikaremoana to be utilised for the generation of hydro-electric power. Its economic advantage to the Dominion is important, and, it represents another stage of progress in the fullest utilisation of our great resources of power.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 4
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