I returned to the hillside to search for another section of the two kilometre water race, beginning near a...
Date: November 17th, 2025
Looking down on the Wainuiomata River near the old dam, where the view has opened up slightly, following a...
These pipes run beneath the old dam and were built to reduce pressure on the dam wall during major...
Looking inside the Wainuiomata Water Race. This two-kilometre concrete tunnel was built in the early 1880s and decommissioned in...
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