Legacy - Road Metals going in to Deep Cove 1999

Arguably New Zealand’s most remote piece of roading, the Wilmot Pass from Lake Manapouri’s West Arm to Deep Cove was the most expensive bit of roading in the country when it was built in the 1980s.

Deep Cove is where the tail-race tunnel from the West Arm hydro scheme, and Road Metals have been associated with this project ever since its conception.

Shot at the turn of the century, some of their Mack fleet hauling a gravel processing plant heads over Wilmot Pass and down into Deep cove.