LAKE COLERIDGE.
CLOUDS. BUT NO RAIN. WATER LEVEL MAINTAINED. • t The level of Lake Coleridge haß not fallen for the past three days, though the water is still over eleven feet lower than it should be. Ten points of rain fell on Saturday, but there has been none since, the report late last night from Coleridge being: "Calm, cloudy, with indications of rain." The fall over the past few days has been ,78 inch. Yesterday morning at 9 o 'clock' the water was higher than it had been on Thursday, but this was an increase of only .05 feet on Saturday's reading. It may have been due to the light Sunday load, which would tend to keep more water in the lake. Tho records of the leVel taken at 9 a.m. for the past three days are:
Friday .. .. 1658.00 ft Saturday .. 1658.70 ft Sunday .. - • • 1658.75 ft The normal level is 1670 feet. • Though the level of the lake has remained fairly constant since Friday, the inflow from the Harper river decreased from 620 cusecs on Friday to 370 cusees yesterday morning. If the rain still holds off this head of water will be further reduced. - The barometer reading from Coleridge was not available last night, bnt though the indications were for rain the attendant at the power-honse remarked that it had "16oked like that for weeks." LIGHTING CURTAILED AT LYTTELTON. . ' r . In response to the request by the Publie Works Department to eotununers to curtail the consumption of eleetrie power owing to the threatened shortage of water at Lake Coleridge, the Lyttelton Borough Council has decided to switch off the street lighting at 1 a,m. daily instead of at daybreak, and' also to curtail the block lighting in the central area by one hour.
PIPE TENDER ACCEPTED. ' OfclM iBSOCUTIO* WLEOJUJI.) WELLINGTON, August 31. j The Government has accepted the tender of the Hume Pipe Company for the supply of pipes to the Public Works Department for the diversion of the Acheron river into Lake Coleridge, in order to augment the 6upply of | water for power-generation purposes. No price has been announced. \
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 1 September 1930, Page 10
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