WAITAKI DAM
WORK NEARLY FINISHED STATION TO OPERATE SHORTLY Rapid progress is being made with the Waitaki dam above Kurow and it is expected that tho concreting of the giant structure will be completed this week. Already seven of tho 11 sluice gates in the dam had been closed last week and only a small gap in tho hodv of the dam remained to bo built up. Once the dam has been completed the last of tho sluices will bo closed and tho waters of tho Waitaki River allowed to form a lake behind it. This tfhould take less than three days and by the time tho water has risen to the level of tli« dam-crest and begun to flow over tho 1200 ft. spillway a lake five miles long and covering 2000 acres will have been formed. It is expected that tho now station will bo delivering power by tho end of October at the latest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21883, 20 August 1934, Page 10
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