Irrigation View (Canterbury) Traditional Cache
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Irrigation View (Canterbury)
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Cache contains a notebook, pen and pencil. It also contained a First to find travel Bug, and some swaps when first hidden.
Rangitata South Irrigation Scheme
After years of planning, Rooney Earthmoving Ltd has begun work in a 300ha, $80 million irrigation project.
The scheme will use a water harvesting and storage strategy to divert water from the Rangitata River when flows exceed 110 cumecs (cubic metres per second). This water will later irrigate n area of up to 16,000ha, between the Rangitata and Orari Rivers, from Arundel to the coast.
The scheme will divert 20 cumecs of water from the Rangitata River into a series of seven stepped storage ponds at Arundel. The storage capacity of the seven ponds will be 16.5 million cubic metres with a maximum depth of 8.0m and a total surface area of 300ha.
As well as the pond earthworks, there are numerous concrete structures requiring more than 1,000 cubics metres of concrete, 20 hydraulic gate systems and 35 off-take structures and water metering points.
The race network comprises 70km of open race over three separate legs. The initial larger race carries 6 cumecs of water. This reduces to 0.25 cumecs via smaller races as the scheme water makes its way towards the coast.
Construction is planned to take two to three years.
Reprinted from an article written by Neil Wilson, Geraldine News. 10 March 2011
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