WAITAKI POWER
PLANS FOR INCREASED CAPACITY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The design and construction of additions to the Waitaki power station, approved last January, would provide an increase in capacity of 30,000 koliwatts, and would bring the total installed capacity of the station to 105,000 kilowatts. The Minister said the work was particularly complicated because of the necessity to preserve continuity of service of the existing station, which was the most important in the South Island. The excavation of approximately 180,000 cubic yards, mostly rock, would be necessary for a separate intake channel and tail-race for the two new units of 15,000 kilowatts, and it is expected that the work on the main excavation would be in full swing before the end of this year. In the meantime a contract has been let for the construction of houses and huts for the staff and workmen. It is planned to have the scheme completed in time to generate power from the new units by the winter of 1954.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 287, 21 September 1950, Page 6
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