Birchville Dam

Birchville Dam is thought to be the second unreinforced concrete arch dam built for water supply in New Zealand. It turned into constructed in 1930 for the Upper Hutt Borough Council to offer accelerated water capability for the borough and replaced a water deliver weir constructed in 1913–1914 at the same vicinity on Clarke's Creek, near Birchville. Decommissioned in 1958, while Upper Hutt joined the Wellington local water scheme, this dam is now an ancient attraction on the Cannon Point Walkway. This Dam does not appear within the New Zealand Dam Inventory.

At the beginning of the 20th century the Wellington Acclimatization Society had a trout-rearing pond on the northern financial institution of the Hutt River close to wherein Clarke's Creek entered the Hutt River, just downstream of the first Akatarawa Road bridge. The water for this pond turned into taken from Clarke's Creek. In 1912, civil engineer G. Laing-Meason proposed a water supply scheme to the Upper Hutt Town Board that worried building a weir similarly up Clarke's Creek and piping the water to Upper Hutt and as a ways as Silverstream.