ARAPUNI DAM
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
Electric Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, Last Night. Mir Rabone, chief Public Works engineer at Arapuni, estimated that the first supply of power from the hydro-electric works would he available about June, the amount being 15,000 kilowatts. Similar further supplies would probably be available in September and December or January. Mr Rabone assured that the dam was perfectly safe. The ground would bear a pressure of 70 to 1,000 tons per square foot and at present the greatest pressure was only 8 tons. Comparing conditions with the St. Francis dam in California he said the collapse of that dam was due to the disintegrating hard pan on which the dam was constructed, resulting from water action on ground previously dry. There was no such possibility at Arapuni.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11068, 15 February 1929, Page 5
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