DIVERTING A RIVER
DAY AND NIGHT GANGS.
REPAIRS TO FLOOD DAMAGE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, this day
After the fall of the flood water in the Waihopai River the Marlborough Electric Power Board engineers carried out a careful inspection of the damage caused, and have made a reassuring report. The erection of a new concrete wall about' ten feet high and a hundred yards long will be necessary to prevent the river finding its way into its old bed, and big gangs of men are being put on to the .work day and night until it is completed. It is anticipated that if the weather remains fine the wall will be completed in time to permit of the official switching on ceremony to be held according to programme early in May. The cost of the work will be fairly neavy, though not nearly as great as was at first feared, and it will fit in with the engineers' plans for further development of the scheme as the demand for power increases, so that it will not be a loss to the board. A partly completed dam and the headworks generally stood up well to the terrific strain to which they were subjected during the flood.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1927, Page 8
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