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SHING MUN
200,000 TONS. BLOWN FROM HILLSIDE
Two hundred thousand tons of rock rising bodily in the air from a mountain-side. A. dull roar.
violent trem | accompanied by a bling of the earth, reminiscent of an earthquake.
This was the fascinating setting for an unusual deene unfolded be fore the eyes of over a hundred prominent residents of the Co- lony yesterday at Shing Mun, site of the 3,000 milion gallon dam that will adon end the periodical water shortages In. Hongkong.
Tan tons of geliguite was exploded to secure the desired results, and the explosion
sents the biggest engineering event of its kind ever attempted in the Colony
The gelignite was exploded in the quarrydownstream of the dam, the object being to provide stone for use in the dam and to safeguard the supply during the wet weather might be subject when ordinary drilling
to delay due to rain.
In order to produce the desired effect tunnela otulling 265 feet In length were driven Into the hill, the leading tunnet being 120 feet In length and the combined length
of the two branch tunnels being 145. Lect
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At Intervals of 36 feet along up rods on the concrete floor of the cross-cut tunnels, five pockets the diversion tunnel 700 feet were excavated Into the rock below the floor of the tunnels, way and also on the dam itself; and, in addition, water pressure cach of them 12 feet deep and was maintained in some of the about six feet square.
The pockets were loaded with grout holes in the tongue trench, approximately two tone of 60 per to see whether there was a drop
of
I pressure after the blast. cent, gelignite, making about ten
of the rods fell as a result tons in all, the tunnels being back-of the blast, nor was there any filled with earth after the pockets drop in pressure on the holes, thus were loaded.
showing that neither the founda Two electric detonators were tions of the dam, nor the concrete placed in each pocket, connected forming it, hall in any way suffer. in parallel to the ordinary works
ed. electric light circuit, and wired to The blast behaved almest a baftery for 'simultaneous firing exactly as had been anticipated. The hillside slowly rose and foll, Précautionary Measures
As a precaution against aceland no loose rock was thrown and dentally broken connecting wires, none was lost in the river. each charge was also prepared. Between 180,000 and 200,000 for firing with a single line of tons were brought down by the Cordeau-Bickford, this being pass
ed through each charge and having at the portal of the tunnel
an electric detonator attached to
it, which was also connected to
shot.
SUNDAY
JOE MORRISON JUDITH ALLEN JACK MULHALL
KING'S THEATRE DANCING DISPLAY
BY THE PUPILS OF O'KEEFE-MONTGOMERY School of Dancing
Under the Distinguished Patronage of
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,
SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. AND LADY PEEL WEDNESDAY, February 27th, at 5.10 p.m.
Part of the proceeds to be given to
EARL HAIG'S FUND FOR DISABLED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.
TO CHEER AND BE CHEERED!
the lighting circuit. Cordenu THAT'S "COLLEGE RHYTHM," PARAMOUNT'S MUSICAL COMEDY!
Rickford is a hollow canvas tube, about three-lengths of an inch in diameter, which
Ich da filed with 4 apecially prepared explosive of very high detonating effect, and with a velocity of travel of over three miles a secondi
The average vertical height of over-burden above the tunnel the pockets was 150 feet, and actual
over-burden measured above the blast was 72,000 cubic yards. It was expected that the blast would not only remove the whole of the over-burden but would in addition break back beyond its vortical height an amount of about 15 to 20 per cent.. and that the total amount of rock brought down by the shot would be approximately 200,000 tona.
The amount of explosive used therefore amounts to about 0.28 of a lb. to a cuble yard of over- burden, this quantity being fixed in the light of experience gained In the ordinary routine quarrying operations,
Experimenta
had previously. been carried out to measure the force exerted by the wave of con- cussion through rock by setting up steel rods, half an inch in diameter, at various distances from a blast of known charge and noting which of the rods fell over and which remained upright. By calculating the force required to overturn a rod, and noting its distances from the centre of the blast, it was possible to plot zones of pressure. This was done in order to get an idea as to whether he effect of the blast would reach- the dam. about 1,000 feet away and whether it would be htenso unough to open up u'fissure below its foundations or do .other | damage.
No Effect on Dam The effect of the actual blast in this respect was noted by setting (Continued on next column)
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