FLOOD TROUBLE AT RANGITATA

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23798, 18 November 1942, Page 2

FLOOD TROUBLE AT RANGITATA

MAJOR WORKS NOT DAMAGED REPAIRS TO STOCK RACE “No harm has been done to any & the permanent works for the Rangitata diversion race,” saw jJJ District Public Works Engineer (W F. D. Grant) yesterday when ing the recent damage by Boom. W said that while it was regretted the stock water-race supply sbottw have been interfered ■ with farmers required water so urgently, was expected that a satisfactory W ply could be maintained. When j® manpower situation permitted, as j® department hoped it would in near future, arrangements for a W manent stock water supply would k completed. ’ The break- in the water-race brought about by the big flood of tnw weeks ago, and the second rise wards- the end of last week, slid Grant. The trouble had occurred» a point where the Public Works I*' partment had provided the Ashburo County Council with a temporary water connexion with the old c(W stock race. When the irrigation c® struction work was finished, the nexion to the county would be made some miles o° w , stream on the level plain, insteso at the present point where the lace was in a very precarious P* "The rise in the river last resulted in an excess quantity of wjrj being put down the irrigation said the- District Engineer. caused the stock race > overtopped, letting the water flo« on to the unconditioned race ® particularly porous section, special remedial measures are P ned. The seepage affected the s . batter where the stock race is perci»» and a slip followed.’’ The stock race was being reP aß ®i by fluming as quicklv as possible a steep gravel face. For the ia« years the stock water had been brO JL along the first three miles of tneiw race, winch had been carefully ditioned against bottom and- side age. The big flood had made the . porary stock race intake useless a temporary cut was. put * n *° , m the race from box was be put in to contn^ffig.