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HARNESSING THE WASH.

PROPOSED POWER SCHEME

The proposal to harness the tidal waters of the Wash as been carried a step forward by the formation of a syndicate to carry out the preliminaries, remarks the London Daily News.

The scheme provides for the generation' of electricity sufficient to supply half England at a farthing a unit. By means of a dam from Skegness to Hunstanton—L2A miles across the Wash—a road would be formed joining Norfolk and Lincolnshire and saving the present road journey of over 70 miles. The estimated cost of the scheme is £7,000,000. There would he 25 miles of dams, consisting of the sea dam from Skegness to Hunstanton and one running down the middle of the enclosed water. In one division of nearly 100 square miles on the Hunstanton side of the dam would be always full, kept at high tide level by the sea and the rivers flowing into it. On the Skegness side the dam covering about 58 square miles would be kept practically at low-tide level. Locks would be provided at Boston for shipping to King’s Lynn and Wisbech. The actual sea fronts at Skegness and Hunstanton would be outside the dam. The largest hydro-electric plant in the world would be erected on the •dividing dam at Boston, the power station being equipped with a 600,000 h.p. installation.

Mr Leonard Weaver, engineer, has been working on the scheme for four years.

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Bibliographic details

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17449, 11 October 1928, Page 6

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HARNESSING THE WASH. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17449, 11 October 1928, Page 6

HARNESSING THE WASH. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17449, 11 October 1928, Page 6