RIVER FALLS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1932, Page 6

RIVER FALLS

HAMILTON’S WATER SUPPLY

(By Telegraph—ter Frets Association)

HAMILTON, March 26

As a result of the filling of Arapuni Lake, the level of flic Waikato ri\cabas fallen five feet below normal, and consequently the Hamilton water Ripply has been seriously affected. The intakes at the pumping station are now above water, and the borough is relying solely on the reservoir. At the request of the borough engineer, 1500 cusecs of water were released’at Arapuni this morning to alleviate the situation. With the level of the river thus raised no further anxiety in this connexion need lie felt here. With the appreciable drop in the level of the Waikato river at Hamilton shoals and snags have appeared, rendering bathing on any stretch of the. river fraught with considerable danger, Both wharves of the Roose Shipping Company at Hamilton are high and dry. and all river transport here is suspended- , . The extent to which the water level has dropped can be gauged from the fact that it is possible at various points of the river at present to walk practically waist high from bank to bank. The public in the meantime has been requested to exercise rigid economy in the use of water.