FAULTS IN WATER TUNNEL.
i'-:. j - • AV ; REPAIR WORK IN PROGRESS.
[By TEIiEGBAfH.--OWN CORRESPONDENT.] : CHRISTGHURCH, Wednesday.. As aprecaution against the .hillside becoming _ saturated with water and possibly causing slips,. steps are being taken by the Public Works Department to minimise the leakage of water- from the :riew tunnel for the Lake Coleridge hydro-etectrid scheme, Since the tunnel was completed a number of small crack 3 have developed W ar ® sufficient to eliow a certain = . ? f . leakage into the hillside. ln 1 * * s nG *' a serious matter, will not affect the power plant at «c«r?n* a i {''***** flips th ft .J , toBD decided to grout the cracks with fine concrete, With V-l object of preventing the t f as possible, This work »;i 1 ?e far by about the middle ofT» three shifts dally, 1 "' th ®
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 14
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135FAULTS IN WATER TUNNEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 14
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