CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12] — Page 365

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In

1876

Carrying

the Government contemplated

out this mout

mussary

vary work recommendation it con-

postponed until the

but at

my -sideration was

new seawall should be completed. A limited amount of dredging has been done every year opposite the principal sewer outlets

sewer outlets, but the work.

so inex =

has been carried out on pensive a scale, that it has done.

but little good beyond Keeping

the sewa

sewage

short time.

flow of for

A.

mended.

the

obstructed

It is

now pecom.

to dredge down this foreshore

to the level of the footings of the re- -pared wall as

shown in her John

Cross-section, also to remove

Cordes

the shoals

of

noxions black

boge

which have accumulated opposite

the old sewer outlets and to which

are due the pestilential

pervade the embankment hours of low tide.

out that so low an

dmello

during

that

the

It is not held

expenditure

d.

$ 10,000 will entirely remedy the wil.

M

give the

Cargo

boots

A.

low

water

to the wall but it certainly

will to a material extent aboti

A...

what is

most intolerable publie muisance. By the soundings recently taken and the quantities calculated, it is estimated that at least 28,000 cubic

ooge

should be

yards of silt and Removed to enable the fort of the wall

to

remain Covered at dead. low water

Spring tides. From the experience of

past years

the cost is found to ins

cubic

The average 35 cents

per yard. work is done from a flat or lighter

by spoon

and

bag

a kind of work

are

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