LONGER HOURS AT ATIAMURI DAM
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 21.
Badly broken rock under the main dam site of the 84,000-kilo-watt Atiamuri power station has forced engineers to step up drilling and grouting work from an eight-hour day job to round-the-clock toil.
Proving a much bigger job than expected, drilling and grouting teams have pumped in thousands of tons of concrete already on grouting work round the dam site. Three-shift work on the grouting programme had prevented possible delays in the main dam .construction plan, the Waikato river power project engineer, Mr J. H. Mackay, said today. Atiamuri is expected to deliver its first power in 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 15
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