The Concrete Race, also known as the Water Race, is a buried tunnel that once carried clean river water from an old dam to a pipeline about two kilometres away. It is hidden within native bush and is now mostly underground, though a few short exposed sections are known to a few. The race was decommissioned in 1902 after newer intakes and treatment facilities were built, but it remains an important example of early water engineering in the Wellington region.
A view overlooking Richard Prouse Park and the surrounding hills from The Rock on Moores Valley Road. Once a...
Hine Road street trees out on quite the show during autumn. The region where this street lies was once...
The Wainuiomata water race is a two kilometre long concrete tunnel / closed race built in the early 1880s...
View of the decommissioned Wainuiomata Lower Dam (named Morton Dam). This dam once supplied water to Wellington along with...
View of Richard Prouse Park in Wainuiomata. The park has football and cricket pitches. The Wainuiomata River forms much...
Looking at one of the rooms in the Wainuiomata Museum that displays artefacts from the past as well as...
Looking at Morton Dam in the year 2024, after being decommissioned some 36 years before. It once supplied the...
Looking at hills covered in native bush in one the largest areas of lowland native forests in the lower...
