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Clutha River Guardian: Conservation Group Aims To Build Unity
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Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Upper Clutha River Guardians. Lowburn By The Clutha. Decision is Option 5! Central Otago District Council. Clutha Gold Trail Trust. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group. Clutha YouTube Video Dams. Lake Wanaka Preservation Act. Otago Central Rail Trail. Queenstown Lakes District Council. Red Bridge River Park. Red Bridge River Park Charitable Trust. Roxburgh Gorge Trail Trust. Upper Clutha Conservation Taskforce. Upper Clutha Environment Society.
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Mighty Clutha: The Cromwell Gap ~ Pre-Dam
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The Cromwell Gap Pre-Dam. Clyde Dam Empowering Act. Gates of the Gorge. Lowburn By The Clutha. Clutha River Guardian News. Cromwell before the Clyde dam was set to become a tourism icon. Blessed with a dramatic location, numerous historic buildings and a spectacular bridge overlooking the famous Cromwell Gap, its potential was obvious, until . "think big.". The Clutha Mata-Au, before the Roxburgh and Clyde dams, possessed many natural treasures in the form of extraordinary river features and rapids.
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Mighty Clutha: Clyde Dam Statistics
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Type of Dam: Concrete gravity dam (largest in NZ). Dam Height: 102 metres. Net Head of Water: 60 metres. Width at Base: 70 metres. Width at Top: 10 metres. Length at Top: 490 metres. Penstocks: 4 (plus 2 encased in concrete). Spillways: 4 with radial arm gates. Sluices: 1 low level with radial arm gate. Lost Capacity: 180MW (due to re-design error in 1982). Turbines: 4x Francis fixed-blade turbines connected to 108MW salient pole generators. Total Concrete Poured: Approx. one million cubic metres. Clutha...
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Mighty Clutha: A Brief History
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Long before the Clutha Mata-Au had a name, before the Moa-hunters, and before the gold-rush, a mighty earthquake ripped through the Cromwell and Kawarau Gorges, providing new outfalls for Lakes Wanaka and Wakatipu. The Upper Clutha Mata-Au and the Kawarau Rivers were born, and the confluence of these powerful rivers cut the famous 'Cromwell Junction.'. Threatened landowners went to the High Court, winning their case against the Government. But the democratic provisions of the New Zealand legal system...
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Mighty Clutha: Clyde Dam ~ The Human Cost
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Clyde Dam The Human Cost. In all the history of Otago and of New Zealand, in peace and in war, the Clutha proposals must rank as the cruellist and most premeditated. Conceived in departmental ambition, nourished in secrecy and permitted by political indifference for people, the Clutha proposals hardened into unpalatable fact.'. Paul Powell, 'Who Killed the Clutha? Lowburn's Welcome Home Hotel, built in 1869 and the social focus of the community, was demolished and the area was flooded, '60ft under.'.
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Mighty Clutha: Clyde Dam ~ Building on an Active Fault
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Clyde Dam Building on an Active Fault. 1984, 11 September, by David Wethey. 1986, 2nd December. 1988, 14th December. 1988, Aerial View. 1993, 13th February, by Phil Reid. 1993, 19th April, by Phil Reid. Clyde Dam Empowering Act. Gates of the Gorge. Lowburn By The Clutha. Clutha River Guardian News. The Clutha Mata-Au, before the Roxburgh and Clyde dams, possessed many natural treasures in the form of extraordinary river features and rapids. Finally, the rising waters behind the Clyde dam submerged the hi...
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Clutha River Guardian: 'Good progress' in talks on riverside land
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Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Upper Clutha River Guardians. Lowburn By The Clutha. Decision is Option 5! Central Otago District Council. Clutha Gold Trail Trust. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group. Clutha YouTube Video Dams. Lake Wanaka Preservation Act. Otago Central Rail Trail. Queenstown Lakes District Council. Red Bridge River Park. Red Bridge River Park Charitable Trust. Roxburgh Gorge Trail Trust. Upper Clutha Conservation Taskforce. Upper Clutha Environment Society.
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Clutha River Guardian: Cycleway Talks With Landowners Start
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Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Upper Clutha River Guardians. Lowburn By The Clutha. Decision is Option 5! Central Otago District Council. Clutha Gold Trail Trust. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway. Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group. Clutha YouTube Video Dams. Lake Wanaka Preservation Act. Otago Central Rail Trail. Queenstown Lakes District Council. Red Bridge River Park. Red Bridge River Park Charitable Trust. Roxburgh Gorge Trail Trust. Upper Clutha Conservation Taskforce. Upper Clutha Environment Society.
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Mighty Clutha: Clyde Dam ~ The Shocking Facts
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Clyde Dam The Shocking Facts. 1973 The Clutha Valley Development Commission was set up to evaluate potential sites, and after drilling test tunnels in the Cromwell Gorge, advised against interfering with known landslide areas which were pronounced highly unstable. 1976 The site for the high dam was chosen by politicians, not geologists. 1977 April. Ministry of Works' bulldozers moved onto the site and began work, before a Water Right had been obtained and before an environmental impact report. 1981 July&...
