WAIKATO IN FLOOD
WORK AT ARAPUNI
HINDERED
[By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, 30th May. The lieavy rainfall has caused the Waikato Biver to rise, and the water gained nine cuaees on the pump discharging the soakage through the gabion dam at Arapuni. An extra pump was installed, but the increased pressure caused the seepage to gain on both pumps, which were withdrawn. The water soon reached the apron of the middle segment of the dam, which is now completed to the full 170 feet width/ but the wing wall on the western side was not in place alongside the segment, with the result that those excavations will be flooded and covered with debris. The flow of the river had risen to 11,000 cusecs on Saturday. If it reached 16,000 cusecs it would flow
over the gabion' subsidiary dam, but that is not anticipated. Had another few days elapsed, the'company would have been independent of all floods at the dam site.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 14
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