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BUILT: WONDER WORK TO TAKE THREE YEARS
Drought t this year has helped to continuous process never before build a new reservoir for London, used in this country. which will hold 4,400 million gal- A huge scoop hauled by a power- lons of water
ful motor-tractor is driven over the The driest summer since 1921 surface of the ground. The soil has enabled work to be pushed on, it shovels out is carried in a con- night and day, on a vast scheme tinuous stream along an endless which will cost the Metropolitan | belt elevator, rather like the eleva- Water Board £1,250,000, and will tor used in building a haystack, to take another two and a half years tractor units with two trailers that to complete,
will each hold ten tons.
This new reservoir, at Staines, will be a lake 350 acres in extent, and 50 feet deep.
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Scoop and trucks drive side by side while the two trailers are |rapidly filled with ballast.
. But, in spite of the size, if the I timed one loading. It took no whole of London were to draw on more than 50 seconds to excavate the one reservoir, it would be and load ten tons of ballast. drained dry in 15 days.
When one unit is filled, another About 1,100 men will have to unit is ready to take its place. The excavate 6,000,000 tons of ballast full units are driven on the em- and clay to build an embankment bankment, where emptying, like more than three miles în circum-loading, is automatic. ference.
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JUST PRESSES A LEVER
The situation is regarded as The driver presses a lever, and A few feet below the surin turn a side of each trailer face is a deep layer of London clay, automatically opens, the truck body impervious to water, which will be tilts up till it is almost vertical, used to form a watertight core of tips its load and settles back into puddled clay in the surrounding place again as the driver returns. embarkment.
to the excavator for another load.
"If it were not for the clay on The embarnkment, when 'com- the site, it would be ruinously ex-plete, will be faced on its inner pensive to build a reservoir like side with concrete to stop erosion this," I was told during my tour by waves.
of inspection with Mr. G. W. Pyatt,
assistant to the resident engineer, Mr. F. W. Ireland, writes a corres- pondent.
If the whole reservoir had to be made watertight with concrete, it would probably, be cheaper to dam a valley in Wales.
To make the embarkment of the new reservoir watertight will re- quire hundreds of thousands of tons of puddled clay.
Puddling is just making mud pies on a gigantic scale. I saw clay being scooped out of the ground by mechanical means at the rate of two tons a bite.
TWO BIRDS
WITH ONE STONE
Berne, Yesterday.
Bills relating to national defence and to procuring of work for the unemployed were both passed by the National Council to-day.
WORK DONE BY ONE MAN' The work is done by one man sitting in a high tower, which travels slowly from one end of the The expense involved by these clay pit to the other, along a set, measures totals 400 million francs.
The of rails.
Council of States, the Stretched from the tower across Staenderat, discussed an interpel- the clay pit to the other side is a lation of the Radical deputy Kell- steel cable, anchored at what iser from the Canton of Argovié, known as the tail tower, which also concerning the illegal agitation of runs along the quarry on a parallel revolutionary groups and abuse of set of rails.
freedom of the press. Backwards and forwards along 'Deputy Keller in a speech main- this cable travels the two-ton tained that the activities of these scoop, biting out a small lorry load groups tended to imperil Switzer- of clay from the quarry on every land's relations with foreign coun trip..
tries, and suggested that the Swiss Trucks run the clay to the pud- Department of Justice-should be dling mills, where it is ground authorised to institute proceed nga between heavy rollers, slashed by on its own initiative in cases of in knives and mixed with water, to sults to the heads of foreign staten form a substance. like rather wet or to foreign governments. putty.
The President of the Confedera- The puddled clay is then deliver-tion, Doctor Baumann, replied that ed by lorries on caterpillar tractors the question would be examined. to men at work on the embank and foreshadowed, as he had al- ment.
ready done during yesterday's de- The core of puddled clay grabate in the Council, early enact-. dually tapers to about five feet ment of stricter regulations for wide at the top of the embankment. protection of the state.-Router.
THE "TRAMP SQUAD”
To make it watertight, men tramp it in with their heels, as has been done from time immemorial.
Sentence of one month was im Puddled clay is so sticky that no mechanical rammer can be used. | posed on Telm・Yau, 18, by Supporting this watertight core R. A. D. Forrest this morning, will be an embankment of ordinary stealing a leather wallet, ballast, 800ft, thick at the bottom Inspector Baker said that whi and tapering to 15ft. at the top...complainant was buying tickets
The 6.000,000. tons of ballest the rate of the South China forming this embanknient are being ball Ground, defendant extr
vated and dumped by new, the purse out of his pocket.