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Mr. Huang Fa, director of the East River Project (left), with some of his engineers pictured at the scheme's headquarters
raising it 5 metres. The dam across the Stone Horse River is 130 metres long, with 8 metre deep foundations. Staunchions supporting the sluice gates are 14 metres high. Two of the sections are solid and the 14 others house regulating gates.
The headquarters of the project at Tang Tou Hsia is one of the major construction sites. Here the Kuan Yang and Yen Tien Rivers converge to form the Stone Horse River. A pumping station housing three pumps and a large eight-gate regulat- ing dam have been built.
Nearby Quarry
The course of the river is being altered at this point and a new chan- nel has been excavated by machines and manual labour.
Rock for concrete is quarried from a nearby hillside and is washed and crushed at a plant on site next to two cement mixers. Wet concrete is transported in small trolleys on a railed track above a bamboo struc- ture and is tipped into a jointed feed pipe which leads to the placing spot on the dam.
At Chu Tang the construction of a dam with four regulating gates and a pumping station is almost complete and а new canal, three kilometres long linking Yen Tien reservoir has reached the same stage. The pace of construction on the East River project is remarkable even more so when it is considered that during last year Kwangtung Province suffered some of the worst storms for many years.
During one of these the Stone Horse River rose five centimetres every hour and eventually complete- ly swept away an emergency dyke and shifted 11,000 cu. metres of earth and stonework.
The Editor wishes to acknowledge the assistance given by Mr. D. Davies, editor of Far Eastern Economic Review, and by the editor of Ta Kung Pao newspaper in the preparation of this feature.
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Feed pipe leading to concrete placing
area on the Tang Tou Hsia site
Sluice gates being prepared for installation in the Chu Tang dam. The gates were brought to the site from North China
Part of the dam at Tang Tou Hsia, with the pumping station on the right
Far East Architect & Builder February, 1965
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