Kai Tak Nullah and the Road and In this quarter, the Dredging Fleet In Hong Kong study was given to the Drainage Works for this Resettlement dredged a total of 39.504 cubic yards; the Shaukiwan Route and, as an alternative Development; the Wing Hong Street Marine Boring Barge sank 17 bores total. to widening, a scheme for a parallel water- Intercepting Sewer which removes sewage ling 510 feet; the Land Boring Gang sank front route was proposed. from the Housing Authority Scheme at 52 bores totalling 1,337 feet; diving work So Uk: the general drainage and sewerage amounted to 176 hours under water. for Kwun Tong Reclamation, Stages I & II; completion of No. 2 Intercepting Sewer for Kowloon Eastern Drainage Scheme.
Other new
works completed included the diversion of the Shing Mun River at Tai Wai, Shatin, and the drainage work for Tsuen Wan Housing Scheme for the Hong Kong Housing Society.
The four public dumps under the con- trol of this office received a total of 173,- 471 cubic yards of earth and building debris, etc. The P. W. D. Laboratory carried out a total of 2.797 tests.
ROADS OFFICE
The effect of the increased funds avail- able for maintenance of roads in the cur- Preliminary investigations and design rent year became more noticeable during work were being continued on both sides this quarter as the year's programme of the Harbour, and in the New Ter- gathered momentum. 25 separate con- ritories, for various sewerage schemes, tracts for work varying from $100,000 to such as North Point Sewerage Scheme, almost $2,000,000 were in hand during the Central Sewerage Scheme, Kowloon South quarter in addition to a very large num- Outfall Scheme, Shek Wu Hui Sewerage ber of items of work being carried Scheme, etc., etc. The various
under the Maintenance Contract. sewage pumping plants and screening plant in the Colony are now functioning more efficient- ly than previously, as knowledge is gained on the best methods of running the plant.
ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL OFFICE
Road and Castle Peak Road.
With the
arrival of the warm season, the Air Con- ditioning Section naturally came into its
out
At Kai Tak Airport minor repairs to
bays were carried out. runway 13-31, Taxi track and parking The new runway
was opened to traffic on 12.9.58 and was
taken over for maintenance.
To serve through traffic between North Point, King's Road and the City a scheme for a waterfront freeway on reclamation was proposed to accord with Dr. Charles- worth's recommendations. This allowed for connections to a new harbour bridge and a road over Morrison Hill connecting with Stubbs Road.
Interim improvements to Garden Road for a four-lane carriageway were formulat- ed. Mid-level improvements for Seymour Road were studied.
A scheme for 300 parking meter sites in the Central area was proposed to the Police. At the same time a traffic study was made of the parking problem in the City Area and draft proposals for three new multi-storey garages were formulated.
The following traffic studies were carried out in the City Area:
Occupancy of cars and taxis. Origin and destination. Proportion of tram traffic to general
traffic.
Schematic flow diagrams. Journey mean times and speeds. Accident rates.
WATERWORKS OFFICE
At Tsim Sha Tsui excellent progress was Works in the Electrical Section included made on the reconstruction of the Ferry the wiring in of Street Lighting Installa-
Concourse with little or no inconvenience tions in Sections 1 and 2 of Chai Wan to the heavy traffic in the area and work Resettlement Estate. The installation of
was more than 50% completed. A start winking Belisha Beacon lights was extend-
The rainfall for the quarter was a little was made, in conjunction with the Kow- above average (47.381 inches as against ed to 7 pedestrian crossings at Queen's loon Motor Bus Co., on the column foot 39.917 inches), chiefly because of Septem- Road West, Ma Tau Wei Road, Chatham ings for the erection of covered ways over ber's rain, which was nearly twice the
the passenger discharging platform.
average. With the exception of Tai Lam The Contract for a pedestrian subway time during the quarter and an unofficial Chung all the reservoirs overflowed some
own not only in ensuring that existing under Connaught Road Central was let full supply was given to the majority of installations were operating efficiently but (Piling works only).
Eastern Hospital the urban areas during the periods of also in coping with the large demand for Road was completed.
The construction overflow. An all time record for Hong new installations; these included dehumidi- of nine tennis courts at Victoria Park was Kong was reached when on September fiers, room air coolers and air conditioning well in hand.
9th the consumption over the 24 hours plant installations.
was 83.90 million gallons. The consump- 62.20 million gallons per day against an average of 65.00 million gallons per day during the corresponding The storage on Septem- the quarter period last year.
ber 14th was also a record when the total quantity in all the reservoirs was 10,052.38 million gallons which is 96% of the maxi- mum. The total amount of water in storage on 30.9.58 was 9,904 million gallons as against 9,466.56 million gallons on 30.9.57.
Work in progress included the widening tion averaged of Taipo Causeway, and reconstruction and widening of Kam Tin Bridge.
Production for
Quarries:
as follows:
PORT WORKS OFFICE
During the quarter, 2 piers (Kowloon New Star Ferry Pier and Chimawan Pier) were completed. Works in hand consisted was of 5 Reclamation Projects (Central, Kwun Tong, Hung Hom, Cheung Sha Wan and Quarry Tsuen Wan), I Site Formation Contract (Kwun Tong), 3 Seawalls (Hung Hom, Hok Un Central and Tsuen Wan) and I Typhoon Mt. Butler Shelter (Tsing Yi Island).
Two surveys were made for the develop- ment of Kwun Tong New Town one
Total
Crushed Stone
(tons)
24,205.00
Bituminous Materials (tons) 9,146.30
26,724.00
9,609.40 18,752.70
50,929.00
Plant from Tai Lam Chung has now been received and installation will begin shortly.
was
Following the favourable report from the Consulting Engineers, approval given to proceed with the dam foundation was the site for a Commercial Centre and
at Shek Pik. The construction of access the other was the site for а Police Traffic: A street widening scheme was roads, accommodation for staff etc. was Station. A contour survey of the site completed for the main route in Kowloon put in hand and additional expatriate under formation for Housing Zones II & between the Star Ferry and the airfield at specialist staff started to arrive in the III was also made for possible amendment
Tak via Salisbury Road, Chatham Colony, of layout and levels.
Road, Ma Tau Wei Road and Ma Tau Chung Road. A scheme was also prepar- Two new contracts were let one for ed for the widening of Canton Road be- the construction of a further 2,718 ft. of tween Salisbury Road and Jordan Road. seawall at Tsuen Wan and one for the A detailed layout for Kwun Tong Road construction of Kei Ling Ha Hoi Pier. was prepared.
Kai
The dispute between the villagers and Government over the construction of cer- tain catchwaters for the Tai Lam Chung Scheme was at last settled and work was resumed.
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