LAKE OUTLET BLOCKED
HUGE REPONGAERE SLlp' , FOUR ACRES SLUMPED ' RECORD LEVEL OF WATER The outlet to the Repongaere Lake has been blocked by a huge slip. The water has been dammed back for a distance of four miles, and is at the higest level known to settlers of the district. The slip came down a few days ago in the Tangihangi Creek, and is from three to four acres in extent. As a result of the heavy rain, the level in the lake rpse quickly, completely filling the lake and flooding about 150 acres of Mr. J. R. Hair's property. There is little danger of further flooding of adjacent lands, for the remainder of the surrounding country rises steeply from the edge of the lake. . . Ordinarily, the lake is of about 100 acres in extent, and its area now has been more than doubled in its immediate vicinity, without taking into account the water which has been dammed back in the creek, where the water is now at a depth of 30ft.
There is only a remote danger of the slip breaking away, according to settlers in the vicinity, for it is such an immense one that it should hold. If it does break away, however, the consequences would, be serious, and the great ( rush of ...water most likeiy would cause, great "havoc;, in the country lower down*. - / ' '"'•
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 4
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228LAKE OUTLET BLOCKED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 4
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