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otherwise be, owing to the fact that they were based on the assumption that the spoil would be dumped at Cheung Sha Wan, as part of the town planning reclamation scheme, and the depth of water here is insufficient to permit of the use of hopper barges, the more expensive system of It has however mud pumps having to be used instead. not yet been decided whether the area at Cheung Sha Wan or the harbour of refuge, Yaumati, shall be filled in. The latter is more accessible as a disposal area and consequently would, if used as such, reduce the cost of dredging. The quotation offered by the Harbour Works Company was open only until the middle of February, and as the matter had to be considered by the Harbour Advisory Committee and the Executive Council, and referred to you, and an undertaking obtained from the Godown Company to pay for the dredging in the immediate vicinity of the piers, it was impossible to give the Company an answer by that date. The prices can therefore only be taken as an
The Godown Company approximate estimate of the cost. has agreed, in the event of the approaches being dredged, to deepen to a similar depth the areas between and within one hundred feet of the piers affected including the areas shown coloured green, and coloured red and bounded by blue lines on the enclosed plan.
7. To dredge the area coloured blue to a depth of thirty-two feet would mean the removal of approximately
It would not be worth the while of 150,000 cubic yards. any company to bring plant to the Colony for so small a work, and the hydrographic survey of the harbour is not yet sufficiently advanced to make it possible to say whether other dredging in the harbour will have to be under-
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