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Thursday, February 26, 1970.
Thr reclamation involves forming some 2,600,000 square feet
of land contained by 1.25 miles of seawalls. Some two million cubic
yards (2.5 million tons) of soft mud must be dredged from the sea bed
to form a firm foundation, avoiding settlements of an unacceptable
magnitude under paved areas.
The total volume of filling material required will amount to
some 750,000 cubic yards (one million tons) of rock, and six million
cubic yards (8.5 million tons) of decomposed rock.
Transporting the filling material and removing the dredged
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mud from the reclamation area, using lorries and barges, will be in
itself a gigantic task. Taking five tons per lorry lead and 500 cubic
yards per barge lead as a basis, about 1.9 million lorry 10ads and
13,000 barge loads will have to be moved to do the job.
Special Access Road
Filling material will be excavated from hills, to be generally
left terraced for future development, and also from other areas already
under development. Material will be brought to the site by lorry,
wherever possible, along specified access roads to minimise further
congestion on existing roads.
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A special access road will cut across the Kowloon Bay reclamation.
A bridge will be built over the channel between the reclamation and the
existing runway promontory. One feature of the bridge will be a floating
section, capable of being opened to allow passage for normal marine
traffic during specified hours.
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