HARNESSING THE WASH

Evening Star, Issue 19999, 17 October 1928, Page 14

HARNESSING THE WASH

PROPOSED POWER SCHEME Tho proposal lo harness the tidal waters of tho Wash has been carried a step forward by the formation cf a syndicate to carry out the preliminaries (remarks the London ‘Daily News’). The scheme provides for tho generation of electricity sufficient to supply half England at a farthing per unit. By means of a dam from Skegness to Hunstanton —12£ miles across the Wash—a road would be formed joining Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and saving the present road journey of over seventy miles , , " i The estimated cost of the scheme is £7,000,000. There would be twentyiTve miles of dams, consisting of the sea dam from Skegness to Hunstanton and one running down tho middle of the enclosed water. In ono division of nearly 100 square miles on the Hunstanton side the dam would bo always full, kepi at high tide love! by tho sea and the rivers flowing into it. On tho Skegness sido the dam, covering about fifty-eight square miles, would bo kept practically at low-tide level. Locks would lie provided' at Boston for shipping to Kings Lynu and Wisbech. Tho actual sea fronts at Skegness and Hunstanton would be outside the dam. The largest hydro-electric plant in the world would be erected on the dividing dam at Boston, tho power station being equipped with a 600,000 h.p. installation. Mr Leonard Weaver, engineer, has been working on the scheme for four years.