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Doubling this area to allow for working space between the heaps and adding 2 acres for the barge unloading and refusc sorting plants gives a total of 26 acres.
Costs.
Owing to the special features of the scheme as a whole, and the alternative arrangements which are feasible, such indications of cost as I could make at this stage would be too vague to be worth setting down in this report.
After discussion of this report my first task will be to prepare schemes for both the batch rothod and the continuous flow method in sufficient detail to enable the calculation of comparativo estimates of the costs of installation and of opcration.
The Next Steps.
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Of the three proposals which I have made herein requiring action by the appropriate Government Departments, one, the survey of the site at Tsun Van, is already being executed.
At the time of writing, preparations for the check on the weights of nightsoil and refuse by observation of bargo draughts avait receipt of one more displacement diagram from the Marine Department.
I understand that tenders are already being invited for construc- tion of more of the 100-ton steel barges for refuse, but before the time for placing orders arrives there will have been opportunity for fuller considoration of the possibility of altering the design.
I request that, as soon as possible after copies of this report have been issued to the Departments interested, a meeting of representat- ives of those Departments should be arranged at which I can hear their views upon the proposals which I have outlined. Equipped with the results of such a discussion of the project and with additional items of information which I am obtaining, I shall be in a position to proceed with formulation of a scheme and estimates.
The design work will make the best progress if it is done in Great Britain, where I shall be able to make direct contact with the suppliers of the special equipment required and thus avoid the delays of correspondence from Hong Kong. I propose therefore to return to London shortly after the discussion meeting.
21st May, 1951.
(Sgd.) Laurence P. Brunt.
Consulting Engineer.