PUMPING STATIONS
Artesian Water For Wellington City
The tenders of Mr. W. Lemmon have been accepted for the erection of two pumping stations for the Wellington City Corporation. These stations, to be in reinforced concrete, are to be erected at. Gear Island (Lower Hutt), near the pipe bridge and at Thorndon Quay, at an approximate cost of £l7OO and £l5OO respectively. They are a necessary adjunct to the auxiliary supply of artesian water, which the corporation is about to draw from the subterranean sources in the Hutt Valley. The pumping plant nt the Gear Island station, the foundations of which are now being built, will force (he water into the existing city mains (which traverse the southern end of Gear Island) ; and the Thorndon pumping plant will net as a “booster” to assist the natural gravity pressure in forcing the water through the city mains and up to the Bell Road reservoir at Brooklyn, i
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 253, 23 July 1935, Page 11
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155PUMPING STATIONS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 253, 23 July 1935, Page 11
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