HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1922, Page 5

HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKS.

NEW PLYMOUTH PROJECT. QUESTION OF MORE WATER. PROGRESS REPORT ON SURVEY. The steps taken in the survey to locate additional sources of water supply for hydro-electric purposes were reported on by Messrs. Sladden and Palmer, surveyors, in the course of a letter read at last night’s meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council. The report stated: “Up to the present we have been engaged collecting information as to the additional water that could be diverted into the proposed storage reservoir, and ascertaining the levels of the several adjacent streams. Our first investigations, were well up towards the radius line, and although we have not yet done much work in that locality, we find that it is quite possible to divert the water from the Mangorei stream into the Mangamahoe valley. “Later, as the principal consideration is the quantity of water to be obtained, we confined our attention to the lower reaches of the strean), and are now in a position to state that the water from the Mangorei at a point about one mile below the junction of the Korito and from the Henui, at a point below the junction of thh Pokeikatahuna, can be diverted to the storage reservoir, and that the water from the Man* gaoreka can be diverted into the Waiwakaiho. “We are not yet in a position to give any estimate of the cost or of water available. Next week we propose guaging the several streams, as they are now carrying about therr minimum quantity of water, and at present we are investigating the Mangamahoe valley with a view to ascertaining what extra storage can be obtained, having previously found that the water from the Mangawarawara stream can be diverted into this valley for the purpose of filling storage basins. In carrying out the work outlined above there are no engineering difficulties to .be surmounted.”