IRRIGATION WORKS
PROGRESS ON OMAKAU SCHEME RAGE COMPLETED FOR OVER 12 MILES About one-third of the constructional work on the Oniakau irrigation works has been .completed, but the Public Works Department; will now be able to push ahead faster, as the stream has been diverted and the cut-off wall almost constructed. ’ The main race has been completed for a length of 12* miles. It includes a water tunnel 1,064 ft long. The department will soon be starting on the syphons for the face, the contracts for them now being in the course of preparation. At the headworks good progress is being made with the dam. The river has been diverted through the diversion tunnel of 17ft in. diameter, which will act as a spillway tunnel when the works are completed. The department is now proceeding with the cut-off wall, which is practically completed, and the next big job will be the concrete slab of the face of the rock-filled dam. Up to date 45,OGOyds have been placed in the rock-fill. Work at the Lower Mauorburn dam is also progressing favourably. The dam is a concrete arch to provide additional irrigation for the Galloway Flat. The work is more than, half finished.
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Evening Star, Issue 21469, 21 July 1933, Page 10
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201IRRIGATION WORKS Evening Star, Issue 21469, 21 July 1933, Page 10
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