SEVERE DAMAGE BY FLOODING AT ORONGORONGO
During the Christmas holidays the Wellington city waterworks at Orongorongo suffered very severely from the effects of heavy rain. So great was the damage that part of Wellington was without clean water for some time.
The Water Board’s property at Orongorongo has never been milled, nor of course is there any danger that it ever will be. Unfortunately, however, long before the board took it over it had been subject to severe damage by noxious animals—deer, goats, pigs, opossums—and also by some feral stock. It is significant that this is the area viewed by a visiting American biologist who was at the time reported as having stated that he could not see that the deer had damaged the bush. In actual fact much of the bush has been very seriously damaged; in places the undergrowth has gone and there are shingle slides which move and block the watercourses whenever the rainfall is heavy.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 147, 1 February 1963, Page 22
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