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Enclosure
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Extract from The Chief Resident Engineer's Letter
RECR
No. 110 of the 16th. February, 1910 2 APR 10,
to the Consulting Engineers.
BRIDGES.
409
The bridgework has been completed with the exception #
of the rebuilding of several bridges which have failed owing to
the nature of the foundations being insufficient to carry the
loads and to the inadequate nature of the material of which they
have been built, only such bridges as have actually failed have
been dealt with however but it is reared that others will give
trouble as soon as heavy engine and construction trains min
over them especially after the first heavy rains. In dealing
with this question the want of information on the completion
drawings hes bean a drawback and it has taken me longer than it
need have done to arrive at any conclusions.
10.
Bridge No. 2 has been piled as ordered by you. The
piles as bearing piles have been driven to carry 64 to 64 tons
a foot and the found may be considered satisfactory. The bridge
abutments are now up to close on girder bød level. I do not
think there is any necessity for the struts shown by you but as
arranged before I left England will have them inserted should
necessity arise. I am allowing the bank to be built close up in
layers and am putting in a sound stone backing. It has been the
custom to allow pluma to be laid on end in the concrete. I have
ordered that all plums should be properly bedded on the largest
bed and in such a way as not to rock.
11.
Bridge No. 3 is a road bridge over the Railway in
Cutting No. 1. Mr. Eves designed a reinforced concrete structure
owing to there not being sufficient headway for a magonry arch.
The bridge was also designed to take the stream from the ahan-
-doned Kowloon Water Works. I have altered the design and separa-
-ted the aqueduct which it is possible to pass on a trough so
as to allow of solid founds and place the stream diversion through hard material instead of passing it through the sit
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