ANOTHER HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME nears completion on the Waikato river, at Ohakuri. In this Ministry of Works photograph, the spillway structure is at left, the earth dam in the left middle, and the intake structure at right middle, with one almost completed penstock leading from it to the powerhouse in the right foreground. The river can be seen at bottom right. Electric power from the plant is expected well ahead of the scheduled -date of Apr!!, 1961. The main features of the project are a 1500ft diversion tunnel, a spillway gate structure and 900ft spillway channel, a concrete intake dam 60ft high, and the main earth dam which is 180ft from crest to foundations and contains about 500,000 cubic yards of material. Installed capacity of the powerhouse will be 112,000 kw from four generating plants. The new lake will be the biggest on the river with a shoreline almost equivalent to that of Lake Taupo. It will extend up-river for more than 20 miles, and at one point will be more than a mile wide.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 14

ANOTHER HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME nears completion on the Waikato river, at Ohakuri. In this Ministry of Works photograph, the spillway structure is at left, the earth dam in the left middle, and the intake structure at right middle, with one almost completed penstock leading from it to the powerhouse in the right foreground. The river can be seen at bottom right. Electric power from the plant is expected well ahead of the scheduled -date of Apr!!, 1961. The main features of the project are a 1500ft diversion tunnel, a spillway gate structure and 900ft spillway channel, a concrete intake dam 60ft high, and the main earth dam which is 180ft from crest to foundations and contains about 500,000 cubic yards of material. Installed capacity of the powerhouse will be 112,000 kw from four generating plants. The new lake will be the biggest on the river with a shoreline almost equivalent to that of Lake Taupo. It will extend up-river for more than 20 miles, and at one point will be more than a mile wide.