Ample Water Supply Nearer Now

With the completion of the new Waipaoa River highway bridge at Matawhero almost at hand, city council workers have a complicated job catting in the final sections of the new 21-inch pipeline which in future should bring ample supplies of water to the city. Picture below shows pipes at the bridge site in readiness for the switchover.

It has always been considered that the considerable leakages in the pipeline have been in the lower reaches of the 30-mile route by which the water comes from the storage lake in the Mangapoike country (see arrow on map). Shortly, the new pipeline will extend from Gisborne to a point four or five miles below Waingake, near the Reay bridge, and the final section to Waingake should be completed later this year.

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A view in the Te Arai valley showing pipeline crossing river below Waingake. About 21,000ft of new pipe is yet to be laid in this section

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