The Tongariro Power Scheme is a 360 MW hydroelectricity scheme in the central North Island of New Zealand. The scheme diverts water from tributaries of...
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River The Clutha River Other schemes are standalone developments associated with specific sites. The Tongariro Power Scheme (1,400 GWh) diverts water from...
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Lake Rotoaira (category Tongariro Volcanic Centre)
Stream into the Tongariro River. The Tongariro Power Scheme utilises Rotoaira as a storage lake for the Tokaanu Power Station. Extensive engineering works...
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Tongariro National Park (/ˈtɒŋɡərɪroʊ/; Māori: [tɔŋaɾiɾɔ]), located in the central North Island, is the oldest national park in New Zealand. It has been...
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Tūrangi (redirect from Tongariro School)
It was built to accommodate the workers associated with the Tongariro hydro-electric power development project and their families. The town was designed...
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Whangaehu River (category Tongariro National Park)
crater lake, water is not diverted from the headwaters for the Tongariro Power Scheme. Instead, it bypasses the Waihianoa Aqueduct via a ford. The river...
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Barbara's Day parade. In New Zealand the Moawhango Tunnel on the Tongariro Power Scheme was built by Italian tunnellers and commissioned on 4 December 1979...
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Genesis Energy Limited (redirect from Genesis power)
Huntly Power Station, Tongariro Power Scheme and Waikaremoana Hydro Scheme from ECNZ, and the Hau Nui Wind Farm and the Kourarau Hydro Scheme from Wairarapa...
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water flows in rivers from which water had been diverted for the Tongariro Power Scheme. Ngāti Rangi have been a partner in the conservation programme Kiwi...
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resolved. The commissioning in 1972 of the Western Diversion of the Tongariro power scheme resulted in the diversion of water from eight tributaries of the...
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lakes, tunnels and canals are used to generate hydroelectric power in the Tongariro Power Scheme. The Waikato River flows out of Lake Taupō at the town of...
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Planned community (section Government-led schemes)
(both for hydroelectricity), and Tūrangi in the Waikato (for the Tongariro Power Scheme). Construction of Kawerau began in 1953. Twizel was built in 1968...
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Tailrace Bridge, a combined road and water bridge crosses a power canal of the Tongariro Power Scheme in the North Island of New Zealand. State Highway 41 travels...
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Whanganui River (category Tongariro National Park)
near Tongariro National Park Te Pōrere Redoubts Walk crosses the river just downstream from The Western Diversion of the Tongariro Power Scheme crosses...
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Electricity sector in New Zealand (redirect from Electrical power in New Zealand)
commissioned 1962). The North Island has two major schemes: Tongariro and Waikato. The Tongariro Power Scheme consists of water taken from the catchments of...
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North Island Volcanic Plateau (redirect from Tongariro Volcanic Centre)
Rangipo underground HEP station to the east. During the 1960s the Tongariro Power Scheme redirected the flow of water from many of the streams and rivers...
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and later Tekapo B, and Ōhau A, B and C. In the North Island, the Tongariro Power Scheme was completed between 1964 and 1983. The plan in 1959 to raise the...
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deaths. Tongariro Power Scheme. The scheme includes numerous canals and ten tunnels, the longest of which – the 19.2 km (11.9 mi) Moawhango-Tongariro Tunnel...
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Tokaanu wharf onwards to Taupo. The Tokaanu Power Station, the largest hydro dam in the Tongariro power scheme, was built in the area in the 1960s. The local...
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Moawhango River. Water is taken from the lake for the Tongariro Power Scheme, feeding the Tongariro River via the Moawhango Tunnel, although some water...
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Control Structures (1971-1974) Huntly Power Station (Commissioned 1983) In the North Island, the Tongariro Power Scheme was completed between 1964 and 1983...
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to build a power station as they also intended to utilize the river to generate electricity in what later became the Tongariro Power Scheme. Continuing...
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Whakapapa River (category Tongariro National Park)
and Lake Otamangakau reservoir to Lake Rotoaira, as part of the Tongariro Power Scheme, built between 1964 and 1971. Since then the water has been warmer...
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several years later. It forms part of the Tongariro Power Scheme with the water being diverted to the Rangipo power station. In 2008 complaints were made...
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in the Tasman Sea. Water is diverted from the headwaters for the Tongariro Power Scheme. Whangaehu was the site of a Māori settlement when Europeans began...
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became the railhead for the heavy equipment and machinery for the Tongariro Power Scheme Development, with the pumice roads substantially upgraded to take...
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National Park Fault (category Tongariro Volcanic Centre)
Otamangakau and Lake Te Whaiau, lakes developed as part of the Tongariro Power Scheme. The western traces here are just to the west of the mutual dams...
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June 2010. "Trustpower Wheao and Flaxy Hydro Power Scheme". 8 June 2022. "Highbank/Montalto". TrustPower. Archived from the original on 26 January 2009...
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1967 the family moved to Tūrangi due to her husband's work on the Tongariro Power Scheme, where she lived for the rest of her life. In 1969 she founded the...
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National Park, New Zealand (category Tongariro National Park)
the railhead for all the heavy equipment and machinery for the Tongariro Power Scheme development with local pumice roads substantially upgraded to take...
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