HARNESSING THE WASH
PROPOSED POWER SCHEME The proposal to harness the tidal waters of the Wash has been carried a step forward by the formation of a syndicate to carry out the preliminaries, remarks the London “Daily News.” The scheme provides for the generation of electricity sufficient to supply half England at a farthing per unit. By means of a dam from Skegness t< Hunstanton —12J miles across the Wash —a road would be formed joining Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and saving the present road journey of over 70 miles. The estimated cost of the scheme is £7.000,000. There would be 25 miles of dams, consisting of the sea dam from Skegness to Hunstanton and one running down the middle of the enclosed water. In one division of nearly 100 square miles on -e Hunstanton side the dam would be always full, kept nt high tide level by the sea and th' rivers flowing into it. On the Skegness side the dam covering about 58 square miles would be kept practically at low-tide level. Locks would be provided at Boston for shipping to King’s Lynn and Wisbech. The actual sea fronts at Skegness and Hunstanton would be outsi ie the dam. The largest hydro-electric plant in the world would be erected on the dividing dam at. Boston, the power s' ition being equipped with a 600,000 h.p. installation. Mr. Leonard Weaver, engineer, has been working on the scheme for four years.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 303, 22 September 1928, Page 24
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240HARNESSING THE WASH Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 303, 22 September 1928, Page 24
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