TAI LAM CHUNG WATER SUPPLY SCHEME
Extract from Chief Resident Engineer's Report of Progress to 30th June, 1953.
During the above period over 600 and is covered by very poor material nection with the Settling Basin men have been employed. Of these for a depth not yet known. about 300 unskilled and 200 skilled
Scheme, and lines for the various The Contractors continued quarry been provided with information to tunnels; and the Engineers have now excavation, opening up quarrying, development on both banks of the enable them to make final decisions
are working for sub-Contractors on
river.
access roads to Head and Tail Tower
On the left bank some 3000 on these matters. Also, a survey has ends of the Cableway, and on build- tons of spalls have been quarried and been made of the filtration works stacked. On the right bank the de- area as a check on existing surveys ings.
velopment is a good deal slower than so that the works as now designed can De most advantageously sited. This survey disclosed several tunnels Buildings now finished, or practic- through the site, apparently built by ally finished, are the Police Station, the Japanese, just under foundation Contractors' Office, Resident Engine- level. These are now being timbered er's Offices at Tai Lam Chung and at and surveyed so that appropriate ac- Tsun Wan, Works Canteen, two bun- tion can be taken when work com- galows for the two Resident Engine- mences. ers; and three other small bungalows are in hand.
By the end of June a total amount it should be. of 26,300 cu.yds. of rock and 26,600 cu. yds. of soft had been excavated, and more than half of the total amount of excavation given in the Bill of Quantities for foundations for the dam has now been done.
Below level 80 the excavation has reached excellent rock, but above
The Contractors are behind their level 100 it seems to be deteriorating.
Time Schedule, but it is too early yet At one place on the left bank at Considerable survey work has been to say whether that fact will pre- about level 80, the rock dips very done and preliminary studies have judice the completion of the works steeply in a downstream direction been made chiefly for work in con- within the contract time,
KAI TAK
AIRPORT
Progress Report to 30th June, 1953, by Messrs. Scott & Wilson, Consulting Engineers.
Work has continued throughout Following the completion of the During the course of our work it the quarter on the project for de- preliminary designs which were became apparent that there was an veloping Kai Tak Airport by the con- necessary for preparing the Project alternative site for the new airport struction of a single new runway on reclaimed land
Report, we have commenced detailed on an area in the Western Harbour in Kowloon Bay. Preliminary designs have been made designs for the initial stages of the to the south of Stonecutter's Island, for all the important parts of this project so that there will be the which appeared to offer certain ad- project, a full estimate of the prob- minimum delay in the event of Gov- vantages over the site in Kowloon able cost has been completed and ernment deciding to proceed with the Bay. After pointing this out to consideration has been given to the scheme. In particular we have com- Government, we made several bor- most suitable methods of carrying menced a detailed survey of the area
ings in the proposed area. Unfor- out the work and the time it would which will be affected by the diver- sea-bed in this area comprises a very tunately it became apparent that the take. A draft version of the project sion of the large nullah to the north- thick layer of soft mud which would report, incorporating the findings from these investigations, has been west of the airport, and we have have made the construction extreme- completed and sent to our Head Of started work on the design of the ly expensive and difficult. According- fice for approval.
new nullah.
ly this proposal was abandoned.
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