LEWIS PASS ROAD REOPENED
Ford Constructed Overnight
(New Zealand Press Association) GREYMOUTH, January 14.
A ford, built overnight, allowed the Lewis Pass road route between the West Coast and Canterbury to be reopened this morning. The road was closed when a cloudburst in mid-after-noon yesterday caused Handisides creek, at the Canterbury end of the pass, near Hanmer, to rise to an extraordinary level. It carried away steel girders on a new bridge, well above normal water level, and these in turn carried away temporary Bailey bridging spanning the creek a short distance downstream.
The Bailey bridging lay this morning in ribbons on the riverflats below. Bulldozers moved heavy boulders among the rubble in the creekbed to allow an old road route and ford to be used by traffic today.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 10
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