Cornwall’s Concrete Tunnel
About 150 Cornish miners have been I employed during the last two and a ! half years in constructing a concrete • tunnel that is to form part of the Cam- ; bourne drainage system, considered to l<e one of the finest drainage undertak- : bigs in England. Ten and a-half miles of pipes have b.-un necessary to convey sewage to the :;a, and the tunnel, that runs through •' cliff for 1033yd5., is 7ft. high and fr. wide. Three thousand tons of eonurete were required for lining the sides I and eighty-three thousand concrete I blocks for the roof.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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98Cornwall’s Concrete Tunnel Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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