Tokomaru

Water Source

Tokomaru River at Horseshoe Bend by an infiltration gallery under the main stream bed.

The water is pumped from a well in the river bed up to a break pressure tank located near the entrance to the Reserve.  The water is gravity fed from this tank through the treatment plant into the main reservoir located in Tokomaru Road at a point some 0.5 km from the township. The water is gravity fed from here through a 150 mm pipe into the township. The Intake and Treatment Plant were constructed in 1987 replacing an earlier intake system based on a bore at a point closer to Tokomaru Village.

Consent (no 4507, 864 m3/day) expires 2019. Treatment: chlorination of the raw water into the main reservoir.

The reticulation comprises some 6.3km of pipe ranging in size from 150mm down to 25mm.  It is predominantly AC pipe work with some PVC pipes.  It was mostly laid in 1980 with some laid in 1990.