BIG HYDRO SCHEME
TO GJVE 130,000 h.p. SERVICE. ('United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 15. Another stage in the progress of the Lochaber water ippwer scheme has been reached with the completion of the Laggan pressure, tunnel, three miles long and fifteen feet in diameter, through which the water of Loch Laggan and of the Splean River will be turned into Loeli Treig, in Invernessshire.
The scheme is being undertaken in private enterprise. It includes some of the biggest engineering works of their kind carried out in Great Britain. It is designed to tap the Scottish loch in order to produce electrical energy for the manufacture of aluminium. The plant will have a capacity of 130 thousand horse power when completed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 5
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122BIG HYDRO SCHEME Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 5
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