RUN DRY
TE AROHA MINERAL SPRING
EFFECT OF THE DRY WEATHER?
It was noticed during Easter that the two uppermost springs in the Te Aroha Domain, Nos. 21 and 22, the magnesium springs, had ceased supplying palatable waters. No, 21’s supply had degenerated to a rather cloudy consistency, whilst No. 22 had ceased altogether. The Tourist Department believes, and hopes, that this is due to the dryspell, with no surface water percolating to the rocky levels beneath and so becoming mineralised before reappearing as springs.
This, however, is merely supposition, as there is no record of No. 22 spring having completely failed, in previous dry spells, and there is just '
a chance that its proximity to, and the fact that it is above Mokena Geyser, may have affected it subsequent to some subterranean earth movement.
■On the other hand No. 21 has frequently tended to vary its output, and in fact makes only- a few gallons daily.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3115, 6 May 1942, Page 5
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