CITY WATERSHED.
RUNNING' STREAMS FALLING.
BENEFIT OF RAINFALL PASSING.
The flow in the running streams in the city watershed aieas in the range* is rapidly falling to what it was during the drought, when the minimum dryweather flow was 2,250,000 gallons a dav.
There is a daily fall in the levels of the Waitakere and Nihotupu dams, and Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Water Committee of the Auckland City Council, stated this morning that the latest. records showed that- the flow at Nihotupu was only 1,500,000 gallons in 24 hours.
Referring to the new watershed, he said the observations in the areas proposed for dams showed the flow to be 10,000,000 gallons, demonstrating that the dry-weather flow bad been, maintained at the figure it reached in about the middle of January. The minimum gauge at Mangatawhiri was 3,349,000 gallons,, and at Mangatangi 6,800,000 gallons.
Questioned as to any likelihood of a removal of restrictions on the water supply, Mr. Allum said the city was drawing fairly heavily on the storage, and there was no intention in the meantime to remove the bans in force. The running .water was not yet sufficient to meet the daily demand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1928, Page 5
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