Page 210. The department's two dredging units each comprising a tug, a grab dredger, and three hopper barges were operated continuously in the removal of silt alongside sea walls and at the outfalls of nullahs and stormwater pipes.
Page 211. The dredgers were also made use of in forming marine foundations for a new box culvert at Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon. In addition they were used to expose existing cross-harbour water mains and to form a trench to accommodate new cross-harbour water mains where diversion was necessary on account of the new Central Reclamation.
Page 212. A total of 158,000 cubic yards was dredged during the year.
Page 213. Underwater supervision of the work on the diversion of the cross-harbour water mains was undertaken by the Government divers.
Page 214. Diving surveys were made by the Government divers at various piers and sea walls in addition to miscellaneous diving work carried out for the Marine Department and the Police. Underwater work was also carried out for the Drainage Office on an experimental outfall pipe at Tai Kok Tsui.
Page 215. Public dumping at Cheung Sha Wan, Sung Wong Toi, Hung Hom, Ma Tau Kok and Central Reclamations produced a quantity of fill of some 470,000 cubic yards during the year.
New Construction
Page 216. Kun Tong Reclamation. To meet the growing demand for suitable sites for industrial development, Government decided to reclaim some 78 acres at Kun Tong Bay. The main refuse dump in the Colony, which meantime occupies more than half of this area, is to be resited at Gin Drinkers' Bay as described later. It is estimated that approximately 2 million
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