The river well under construction

Description

Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. The PNCC had to hastily sink a soak well on the south bank of the Manawatū River, near the Fitzherbert Bridge. This well had a useful capacity of 4,500 cubic metres (1,000,000 gallons) per day, but the only way of getting the required pressure from the river was by pumping.

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2014P_W63d_009328

Date

circa 1944

Digitisation id

2014P_W63d_009328

Format

B&W print