FLOW IN COBB RIVER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 2

FLOW IN COBB RIVER

TTo the Editor 1 Sir, —In your issue of the 4th instant, a warning is given to traffic pointing out danger from the trucks carrying poles for the electrical transmission line between Nelson and Marlborough. During the past two weeks severai tramping parties have been on Mt. Arthur and in the Cobb Valley where the power for the Nelson-Marlborough scheme is to be generated, and reports are being circulated that the Cobb stream and the Diamond Lakes are almost bone dry. If this is correct it is a very serious matter foi this district and absolute madness to erect lines to supplement Marlborough My reason for writing is to ask the chairman of the Waimea Powe r Board for a reply through your columns and if there is any truth in such an alarming statemert regarding the water supply for our much required and long looked for Cobb scheme surely it is time for the whole of the committee to make an investigation and not wait until the weather changes and then be unable to see for themselves the grave danger of this district being again landed an unprofitable “baby.”—l am . etc.. "OLD NELSONIAN.” Nelson. sth January. A daily check is made of the flow oi wafer in the Cobb river, by the Public Works Department On Ist December the flo\ was 110 ousecs and on the 15th December after he av y rains, 730 cusecs. On the 31st December the gauging showed 35 cusecs while yesterday. 7th January, 29 cusecs were recorded It is stated that yesterday’s How of water in the Cobb would develop over 3500 kilowatts of power even if only the minimum flow in the river was available.