AUCKLAND'S INSURANCE AGAINST A WATER SHORTAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17

AUCKLAND'S INSURANCE AGAINST A WATER SHORTAGE.

The big impounding dam at Nihotupu, which will enaure Auckland from water shortage for many year* to come, hns now been completed, and the official ceremony signal- *_*'""*_. e _-.™*° of *"***. "* ew re » ervoir *»• an active participant in the city water supply, took place this afternoon. The great work of building' the dam, which was taken over °"* *"* City Council from the contractors two years ago, owing to their inability to carry out their contract, has cost in a 11,., including . money paid to the contractors, ' ,9< j'®^ v - nt - j th # c r ??, e ;" r ,?-" contains. ,when full, a body of water amounting to 540,000.000 gallons, :(1) A view showing the up-stream face of the dam and the valve. .J_", A „?neral tview -from the hillside, showing the full sweep of the, dam. (3) A view looking down'the .reservoir. with'tKe water .'still 'some, feet, from the spillway of the dam.' When full a' Ink© about three-quarters , of a mile in length will be formed. (A) The downstream face showing the.spillway and the f-uide walls, 120 feet long, which conduct the overflow.into a .smaller dam at the base of the main structure. In. this way the rush of the overflow is broken.