FLOODS AT ARAPUNI
EXCAVATIONS SMOTHERED. DAMAGE TO POWER WORKS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, May 30. Heavy rainfall caused the Waikato River to rise, and the water gained on the nine cusecs pump discharging the soakage through the gabion dam at Arapuni. An extra pump was installed, but the pressure caused the seepage to gain on both pumps, and they were withdrawn. The water soon reached the apron of the middle segment of the dam, which is now completed to the full width of 170 feet, but the wing wall on the western side is not in place, with the result that those excavations will be flooded and covered with debris. The flow of the river had risen to 11,000 cusecs on Saturday. If it reach--16,000 cusecs it would flow over the gabion subsidiary dam, but that is not anticipated. Had another few days elapsed the company would have been independent of all floods at the dam site.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1927, Page 11
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