THE SHANNON BRIDGE.
HOROWHENTA COUNTY EXGIN
EER’S REPORT
At the last meeting of the Horowhenua County (,'onneil the engineer reported on tlk* Shannon Bridge as follows: —
J have visited lids bridge on Severn! occasions during Hie inonlli and ii|; till Saturday 2nd hist., ! noliced a good deal of improvement, a gradual silting up at the Shannon end ha vino taken plaee. On Saturday 2nd insl„ 1 again visited the bridge, when there was a very heavy flood in the river, and since (hen further erosion has taken place, (hough not. very serious. This er-
asion, in my opinion, was caused through it large tree having been ;-aii”hi on the end main pier, thnu lummy the current and throwing it directly on to the end of the bridge. While at the bridge 1 had this obstruction removed and the result was practically dead water where a few minutes before was a very strong current. To stop any further erosion in the meantime i have made arrangements to have some huge willows hauled to the bridge and anchored for the lime being and-note the result. 1 may stale that I again visited the bridge on Wednesday, and found the main current in the river almost directly in the centre of the bridge.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19201014.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2189, 14 October 1920, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
210THE SHANNON BRIDGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2189, 14 October 1920, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in