Print, Photographic, Ruahihi Power Station
Production date
1981
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Description
An unmounted colour print showing large slip and debris made by water when a canal bank connected to the Ruahihi Power Station collapsed. Handwritten on reverse "Ruahihi disaster".
"1.50 p.m. on Sunday 20 September 1981, one day after Ruahihi Power Station had been officially opened, the eastern bank of the canal supplying water to the Ruahihi Power Station collapsed. Up to one and a half million cubic metres of liquid mud and rubble descended down the valley of Ivy Creek, across State Highway 29, and into the Wairoa River. A 600-metre-long stretch of canal was destroyed, and a section of the highway was washed out."
"1.50 p.m. on Sunday 20 September 1981, one day after Ruahihi Power Station had been officially opened, the eastern bank of the canal supplying water to the Ruahihi Power Station collapsed. Up to one and a half million cubic metres of liquid mud and rubble descended down the valley of Ivy Creek, across State Highway 29, and into the Wairoa River. A 600-metre-long stretch of canal was destroyed, and a section of the highway was washed out."
Production date
1981
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
127mm (height), 175mm (width)
Accession number
0157/08
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