TO COMBAT DISEASE, DIRT, FAMINE AND FIRE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 24

TO COMBAT DISEASE, DIRT, FAMINE AND FIRE.

The_ extensive new water works at Waltakerel are now practically completed. The work has been in progress for about four years, and is being carried out at a contract pilce of is GsUft in length, 30ft wide at the bottom, tapering 3ft Gin at the top, and is curved up-stream, in order to ensure greater strength against the enormous pressure exerted by the inl|, JinJti shown at the foot of the wall, which at tills point is 52ft in height. (3) A view of the big <lau>-

tI the dam is full 'in area of <l5 acres will be submerged, conserving some 250,000,000 gallons of waler. Tile great concrete wall of the impoimding dam. shown In the pictures, •’* a pimotainh' view showing the wall of the dam on the left, and the extent of the lake formed by the erection of the dam. (2) Scour outlets for emptying the reservoir, m, the curve up-stream The gap in the centre is for the spillway, in case of flood. (4) Finishing touches.