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Article: History on tap in the Mournes; The magnitude of the work carried out a century ago can best be appreciated by the 2000 men who were based at a work camp in the present parkland, with its own police station, hospital and cinema.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2001
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Byline: KIM HEWITT
ALMOST a century ago, it took an army of 2000 men eight years to construct the Mourne Conduit. Seven miles of tunnel, 16 miles of concrete culvert and 12 miles of steel and cast iron pressure pipeline were painstakingly built by hand.
Today, 42km of that original 56km conduit is being replaced in a fraction of the time, by a fraction of the original workforce, using 25 excavators, 10 dump trucks and two mobile crusher screeners.
The work was carried out by the Dunmurry-based Farrens group, in conjunction with the Water Service, ...
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