RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
(To the Editor Gi»borne Times.) Sir, —Mr Joyce’s is no now scheme, it has frequently before been discussed. The first effect of letting out a rush of water above tbo Turanganui bridge at _ low water would be to bring down the bridge, nor would it produce a scour at the right place, for the pace of the water would be spent before it got there. Even at low water' thero would still bo a heavy body of water left in the river to receive and neutralise the impact of that from the dam, which would be so far from the bar that the force of the liberated water would be gone bofore it reachod tbo point at which it was intended to operate. As to cutting a channel from the Waikanao to the Awapuni that may, or may not, be advisable ; as I do not know to what Mr Joyce refers in speaking of the “ Waikanae trouble.” I did not know, there was any Waikanao trouble. The strearn is now insignificant, and the tide hardly rises in it except about an hour or so before high water. The tide might well bo excluded altogether without producing any marked difference. —I am, etc,, Anti Dam.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1033, 28 October 1903, Page 1
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