POWER LINES THREATENED
RIVER UNDERMINING TOWER Special to THE SUN OAMARU, Today. Heavy rains and hot winds in the hills have hastened the thawing of the snow on the ranges in the last few weeks and the Waitaki is in Hood. The water is scouring deeply at the foot pf the central tower carrying the power transmission line from Lake Coleridge, and the whole of North Otago is threatened witli a serious shortage of electricity. Th© tower, constructed of steel and bedded in concrete, carries the main 66.000-volt lines across the river about kali: a mile below the railway bridge. The current is eating into the shingle ;md the whole structure is slowly canting toward the Otago side of the river, slacking the wires on one side and tightening them on the other. For a week employees of the Public Works Department have been working to safeguard the tower and to save the power lines and every possible precaution is being taken.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 10
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