Story: Sewage, water and waste
Workers pose for the photographer in an Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board sewerage tunnel between Ōkahu and Hobson bays at Ōrākei, Auckland, in 1913. The tunnel was egg-shaped with the narrow end at the bottom. This shape ensured that sewage still moved along the tunnel under a wide range of water flows.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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