Irrigation in Central Otago: A Novel Engineering Feat for Damming the Kawarau River above Cromwell. Feat for Damming the Kawarau River above Cromwell.

Otago Witness, Issue 3334, 6 February 1918, Page 30 (Supplement)

Irrigation in Central Otago: A Novel Engineering Fe at for Damming the Kawarau River above Cromwell.

Feat for Damming the Kawarau River above Cromwell.

•h of these pillars is built of reinforced concrete. The column on the righ bunk is 46ft high, and 16ft square, and weighed 720 tons, and that on the left hand aide 36ft high, 13ft square, and weighed 530 tons. The river here U vei

>re is very rapid and narrow, running at the rate of 300 ft per minute. By means of submerged pillars, backed b/ huge rocks, it is hoped to raise the level of the river some seven feet, so that the water race may get a continuous flow irom the river.

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