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Filling material from borrow areas and mud dredged from the
reclamation area will have to be transported by lorries and barges
estimated 1.7 million lorry loads and 13,000 barge loads would be required
for the job.
The new runway will have an overall length of 11,130 feet. At
its narrowest section, the overall width of the reclamation at the top
of the seawalls will be 830 feet, comprising the runway proper, a contre
strip 200 feet wide; and grass strips 250 feet and 260 feet wide to the
west and east of the runway proper and a 75-foot wide taxiway with an
adjacent 45-foot wide surfaced strip to the crest of the east seawall.
Towards the seaward end of the runway, there will be a by-pass
area, and next to it a subsidiary fire station, and a concrete jetty
adjacent to the seawall.
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Note to editors: You are invited to have the ceremony covered.
It will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20 in the Conference Room of tho Public Works Department, Murray Building.
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