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Ryan Family Farm Project

  • Date: Feb 2018
  • Client: The Ryan Family
  • Project Type: Construction of 2GL Dam

About this Project

The Ryan Family – father Tony and sons Glen and Dean and Glen’s son, Denver run a large mixed farm of livestock and potato production and more recently with diversification into lemons, avocados and kiwi fruit.

To ensure DROUGHT PROOFING of farm to sustain their operation a decision was made to lift an existing dam wall by 13 metres to increase capacity to approximately 2 GL. with a surface area of 25 ha’s and 2.1 km long.

The project involved:

Diversion and reconstruction of Grays road for 900 metres

Building a new wall –

• more than 300 m long
• 13 metres above original wall
• 24 m above bedrock
• 150 m thick at base
• 154,000 bank cubic metres of earth