SARDINIA’S BIG WALL.
HOLDING UP THOUSANDS OP MILLIONS OP GALLONS OP WATER. ' The King of Italy has opened the second largest dam in the world—the Tirso Dam in the island of Sardinia. The total length of the wall is 722 feet, and there are 18 buttresses, the central one being 228 feet high. • ' The water is supplied by the River Tirso, and the artificial lake formed by the dam Is over 16 miles long, and contains over 30,000,000 gallons of water. This makes It the second largest dam In the \vorld, the largest being the Assuan Dam on the Nile. The Tirso, Dam has been built t<* provide electricity for the copper, iron and zinc smelters In the neighbourhood, and four turbines, giving a maximum of 30,000 horse-power, have been installed. In addition to this, the water will irrigate nearly 100,000 acres of grainbearing land, an area larger than the Isle of Wight.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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153SARDINIA’S BIG WALL. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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