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Construction of the aqueduct and tunnel was completed in 1975. [5]: 232 Moawhango dam and lake looking towards Mt Ruapehu, 2022. Lake Moawhango is an artificial lake made by the damming of the Moawhango River and Mangaio Stream. [8] The dam, designed by Gibb and Partners, was the last major project in New Zealand to be designed in imperial units.
An aqueduct in New Zealand, "the Oamaru Borough Race", was constructed in the late 19th century to deliver water (and water-power) about 50 km from the Waitaki River at Kurow to the coastal town of Oamaru. In Spain, the Tagus-Segura Water Transfer system of aqueducts opened in 1979 and transports water 286 kilometres (178 mi) from north to south.
Walls for Water: Pioneer Dam Building in New Zealand. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press Ltd. ISBN 0-86469-313-3 . Retired civil engineer and dam inspector examines the development of New Zealand dam construction techniques and uses from the 1860s to the 1950s for municipal water supply, mining, kauri logging and development of the Lake ...
Country: New Zealand: Location: Taranaki: Coordinates: for the dam on the Mako Stream: Purpose: Power: Status: Operational: Construction began: 1923: Opening date: 1927: Owner(s): Taranaki Electric Power Board (1927 - 1993) Taranaki Energy (1993 - 1995) Powerco (1995 - 1998) Manawa Energy (1998 - ): Operator(s): Manawa Energy: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Earth: Impounds: Mako Stream ...
A 2003 proposal to rename the Viaduct Harbour to 'Blake Harbour' (for Sir Peter Blake, a famous New Zealand yachtsman) was not successful. [citation needed] In 2011, the area of the Auckland waterfront to the west of the Viaduct Harbour, historically known as the Western Reclamation or Tank Farm, was redeveloped into Wynyard Quarter. [68]
Railway viaduct at Makatote under construction in 1908. The Makatote Viaduct (Bridge 179) [1] takes the North Island Main Trunk railway (NIMT) across the Makatote River in New Zealand. It is 335.7 km (208.6 mi) [1] from Wellington, at the foot of Ruapehu, in northern Manawatū-Whanganui (central North Island), between Erua and Pokaka. [2]
The Chapultepec aqueduct (in Spanish: acueducto de Chapultepec) was built to provide potable water to Tenochtitlan, now known as Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Triple Aztec Alliance empire (formed in 1428 and ruled by the Mexica, the empire joined the three Nashua states of Tenochtitlan, Texacoco, and Tlacopan). [ 1 ]
Out-of-use cast-iron Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct. Benjamin Outram's 44 ft long (13 m) single-span Holmes Aqueduct on the Derby Canal in Derby was the world's first navigable cast iron aqueduct, narrowly pre-dating Thomas Telford's 186 ft long (57 m) Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal, sometimes described as the world's first large-scale navigable cast iron aqueduct.