FLOOD PREVENTION
DIVERSION OF RANGITIKEI In an effort to prevent hundreds of acres of valuable farm lands hear Bulls from being inundated every time the Rangitikei River is in flood, the Works Department has completed a scheme for diverting the flow of the channel in two places in the vicinity of Flock House. The propect was subsidised by the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council and is one of similar undertakings in various parts of the Dominion. Two cuts have been made in the river bed. The first involved the removal of between 80,000 and 90,000 cubic yards of material, being, slightly more than a mile rind a-qtiarter iti length. The second cut, higher up the river, is nearly three-quarters of a mile in length and necessitating the removal of between 30,000 and 40.000 cubic yards of material. The new work was put to its first test last week, when the Rangitikei River rose above normal level following heavy rain in the watershed, but no flooding of adjacent, low-lying lands occurred. .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 4
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