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news review

Access roads to Kwai Chung container terminal

More than half-a-mile of roads and a flyover are to be built to provide access to the container terminal at Kwai Chung, an industrial town in Kowloon, Hong Kong. These road works are to be carried out as part of the general development of container port facilities in the area.

They involve the construction of a 4-lane road, for 20-ft wide sliproads and a 2-lane flyover. The 4-lane road lies along the rear of the terminal. It will be connected to the north-bound carriageway of Kwai Chung Road by two 20-ft wide sliproads and to the south-bound carriageway by a two-lane flyover and two 20-ft wide sliproads.

These roads will serve the light industrial land further to the north when it is eventually develop- ed, as well as the container terminal. Most of the land for the roadworks has already been reclaimed and construction work is expected to start this month. The project will be completed in 1973, but temporary access to the container terminal lots from the north-bound carriageway of Kwai Chung Road will be provided before this. The works have been designed and construction will be supervised by the Port Works Division of the Civil Engineering Office of the Public Works Department.

Development of new town at Sha Tin

Work has been started on the first phase of the Sha Tin New Town Development, which will create land, mainly by reclamation, for residential and industrial uses and building roads to improve traffic flow through Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. The project, estimated to cost at least HK$50 million (US$8.3 million), will take about 5 years to complete.

A new bypass road is already under construc- tion, leading from the southern side of the Sha Tin floating restaurant, passing the seaward side of Sha Tin Market and coming out on the Lion Rock Tunnel Road.

About 100 acres of land immediately north of Sha Tin Market are being reclaimed. This will provide accommodation for 35,000 people, 25,000 of whom will be in government housing and the remaining 10,000 in private housing in a new central area which will be privately developed in

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accordance with a prescribed layout plan. Land has also been set aside for schools, recreation, government projects and other community facili- ties that the future residents will need.

To assist in providing employment in Sha Tin, an industrial area of about 10 acres for private development will be formed about half a mile north of Sha Tin, on a site on the western side of the railroad and north of Jardines Textile Factory.

Dams at Plover Cove being raised

Work is in progress on raising the dams of Hong Kong's Plover Cove Reservoir to improve its stor- age capacity. It involves stripping off the old temporary road along the crests of the dams. removing the wave wall blocks for temporary

Wave wall blocks, removed temporarily from the original crest, will be replaced in the new elevated crest.

storage and building up on the existing dams. On completion the storage will be increased from 38,500 million gallons to 52,000 million gallons - an increase of almost 50%.

The original overflow spillway, constructed by blasting and excavating through the solid rock and an island flanked by two subsidiary dams, will now have a concrete parapet 17 feet high superimposed along its entire length. 32 reinforced concrete siphons built along the crest of this parapet will work by suction to discharge excess flood water to sea at a considerably higher rate than the normal unassisted flow over the more conventional flat