Shown in the image is the Pollards constructing a trench to install a new scour valve at Morton Dam, in the early to mid-1990s. Around the same time, the Morton Dam Strainer Building was decommissioned. Scour valves are situated at low points or between sections of the pipeline with valves. They serve to enable occasional purging of the lines to eliminate sediment and to facilitate draining the line for maintenance and repair purposes.
Photographer: Lance Harrison.
A New Proposal for a Wellington Water Supply. Mr Nicholas Marchant, C.E., who was formerly Waterworks Engineer...
Typical view of the hills in Reservoir Valley with a field of toetoe in the foreground. Wainuiomata River runs...
Messrs Buckley, Stafford, and Fitzherbert wrote on behalf of the trustees of Messrs Sinclair, claiming £100 damages.
From the Wainui Lookout, perched on the western hills dividing Wainuiomata from Lower Hutt, you can view undulating hills.
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A meeting of the Wellington District Highway Board was held yesterday… The Clerk was instructed to write to Messrs...
A special meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon in reference to the damage to the Wainui...
Mr J. Saunders, contractor, of this city, is, we regret to hear, at present confined to his house through...
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