Anybody who saw the; Good Friday flood of the Hutt Biver 'or even the results of it must have been awaro that au immenso volume of water was coming down to the sea. An: estimate of the quantity was given by the engineer (Mr. H. Sladden) to the meeting of the Hutt Rivor Board last night. According to him the maximum flood discharge was '59,000 ciisecs (cubic feet per second). ' As a cubic foot of. water contains 6.25 gallons,' the river was carrying 368,750 gallons a second, or nearly six million tons an hour at high flood. Tiro maximum velocity was estimated at 12.35 ft per second.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 8
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