6. To facilitate the hauling up of boats in bad weather, the northern bank or edge of the Causeway should be finished off with a gentle slope extending down to the water's edge. The slope should be rough paved between low water and high water marks, with the stones which abound in the neighbouring quarries. This item will cost $3,000, making the total estimate $30,000.
7. The entire foreshore to the north of the Causeway will be dredged down to 2 feet below low water spring tides in accordance with the original design of 1878. The dredging, however, comes under the contract for the break-water, so that its cost is not included in the present reclamation project. The mud dredged from the sea-bed will be utilized for the filling in and will be of considerable help. Most of the material for the reclamation will, however, be red clay excavated from the hills overlooking the spot; convict labour, if properly regulated, may be used with advantage on this work.
8. To ensure good surface drainage, the reclamation should be finished off in one uniform slope or inclination towards the sea, of 1 foot vertical to 200 feet horizontal. The stream at present meandering through the swamp should be diverted into a straight course through an open dyke. For the present, it is not intended to do more than make the reclamation in a rough and ready manner. More expensive works of road making and drainage may follow later when the lands are taken up on leaseholds and are yielding some revenue to the Government.
9. I think it but just to the Sanitary Officers of the Colony to record the fact that the present foul and insanitary condition of Causeway Bay was brought about by the direct action of the Government in 1879, in forbidding the Sanitary Police to interfere with the boat population when the latter began to establish themselves permanently on the foreshore and to form the boat village which has been only recently dislodged. These boat people have now all been turned away, but each boat has left behind it, all around the berth which it so long tenanted undisturbedly, a four years' accumulation of putrid refuse. When the tide recedes and this expanse of fermenting organic matter is exposed to the direct rays of the sun, the effluvium is sickening beyond description, and I have no doubt that it is the cause of the fever prevalent in the neighbourhood.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.
One Document, being...
Plan of proposed reclamation
has been removed to
13/1/2
R75547/844 3m 4/74 P
MPG.793.
Take Cammeray Bay
24th June, 1883.
J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
July
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6. To facilitate the hauling up of boats in bad weather the northern bank or edge of the Causeway should be finished off with a gentle slope extending down to the water's edge. The slope should be rough paved between low water and high water marks, with the stones which abound in the neighbouring quarries. item will cost $3,000 making the total estimate, $30,000..
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7. The entire foreshore to the north of the Causeway will be dredged down to 2 feet below low water spring tides in accordance with the original design of 1878. The dredging however comes under the contract for the break-water so that its cost is not included in the present reclamation project. The mud dredged from the sea-bed will be utilized for the filling in and will be of considerable help. Most of the material for the reclamation will however be red clay excavated from the hills overlooking the spot, convict labour if properly regulated may be used with advantage on this work.
8. To ensure good surface drainage the reclamation should be finished off in one uniform slope or inclination towards the sea, of 1 foot vertical to 200 feet horizontal. The stream at present meandering through the swamp should be diverted into a straight course, through an open dyke. For the present it is not intended to do more than make the reclamation in a rough and ready manner. More expensive works of road making and drainage may follow later when the lands are taken up on leaseholds and are yielding some revenue to the Government.
9. I think it but just to the Sanitary Officers of the Colony to record the fact that the present foul and insanitary condition of Causeway Bay was brought about by the direct action of the Government in 1879, in forbidding the Sanitary Police to interfere with the boat population when the latter began to establish themselves permanently on the foreshore and to form the boat village which has been only recently dislodged. These boat people have now all been turned away, but each boat has left behind it all around the berth which it so long tenanted undisturbedly, a four years' accumulation of putrid refuse. When the tide recedes and this expanse of fermenting organic matter is exposed to the direct rays of the sun the effluvium is sickening beyond description, and I have no doubt that it is the cause of the fever prevalent in the neighbourhood,
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.
One Document, being....
Plan of proposed calamation
has been removed to.
13/1/2
R 75547/844 3m 4/74 P
MPG.793.
Take Cammeray Bay
24th June, 1883.
J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
July
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