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16. The following is an estimate of the cost of the works which I now propose should be undertaken, including the pumping plant already ordered :-
(1.) Dam to impound 194 million gallous,
(2.) Construction of Pumping Station, including for
mation of site,
+
(3.) New road from junction with Stanley Road to near Tytam Bye-wash Reservoir (length 1.40 miles),
$290,000
50,000
98,000
(4.) Access roads to Pumping Station and Gauge
Basin and track for teinporary suction main,... 20,000 (5.) Rising main, 18" diameter, from Pumping Station
to Tytam Gauge Basin (length 2.03 miles), ... 98,000 (6.) Suction main, 18" diameter, to be subsequently used for duplicating rising main (length 1.25 miles), ....
(7.) Pumping machinery already ordered, (two sets of engines, each capable of delivering 1 million gallons per day), including erection,
60,000
108,000
$724,000
Contingencies, say,... 56,000
Total,.... ..$780,000
17. The works required to complete the entire Tytam Tuk Scheme, for which it is not possible to submit an estimate at present, will be as follows:-
(1.) The construction of a large dam below Tytam Tuk Village, with the
necessary road diversions.
(2.) An extension of the Pumping Station buildings.
(3.) The provision of additional pumping plant.
(4.) Taking up the 18" suction main and re-laying same as a rising main, including the necessary length of piping to complete same.
(5.) The construction of catch-waters to such extent as may be found advisable in order to render available the water from areas situated outside the natural drainage area.
18. As may be gathered, none of the works which I now propose to undertake will be rendered abortive by those to be undertaken later, with the exception of the suction main, and, as the pipes from it will be used for the additional rising main required, practically only the labour in laying them and taking them up again will be sacrificed.
19. If the works enumerated under paragraph 15 be undertaken at once, they should be completed in readiness for the dry season 1905-6 and it is even possible that some benefit may be derived from them during next dry season.
20. I therefore request authority to obtain tenders for the works enumerated from contractors whom I consider qualified to carry them out in a satisfactory and expeditious manner.
21. On receiving the authority of His Excellency the Governor for the above, I will prepare a statement for transmission to Mr. CHADWICK giving a full account of what has been done up to the present time and of the works decided upon.
The Honourable THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
I have, &c.,
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works.