Waimatuku River Drainage.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 1024, 31 March 1925, Page 2

Waimatuku River Drainage.

Considerable interest- has been evoked throughout those parts of Southland having bad drainage areas*., over the activities, of the Waimatuku '. River Board. '••■•-.

The dredging operations being carried out by. the Board- are a seurce of .attraction to- residents from widely, scattered districts and small parties of visitors' are periodically arriving atl the scene of operations near tbe out* -, let of the Waimatuku, to see fcbt> - dredge at work. ..The Waimatuku River wj.ll b,e diverted from its age-, long Channel this week* into the .new channel cut by the Boprd, and a three mile bend diverted through a cut of less thau three-quarters of a mule. The Wauhatuku Board purposes > f«i>'inpting a public pictifc , during, ApriV -■> which willtefiord. SqutMiJ^erS aii {oppprtuiiityof seeing the practical nature pf%he work being carried out. A report from the engineer at a recent*' meeting greatly gratified members •£ the Board at the progress being mad^ and the economical nature of th© work.. In some parts a channel 45 feet wide and 15 feet deep has been excavated, although the. part being presently operated is about half that measurement. Four hands remove be* tween 200 and 300 yards a day, the average being well over- the 2QU yards. More rapid progress, will be made when the dredge gets oui of thi solid into the river itself. r.Z't v i