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Headworks
TAI LAM CHUNG WATER SUPPLY SCHEME Extract from the report for the quarter ending 31st December 1954, by Mr. G.B. Gifford Hull, C.B.E., M.L.C.E., Chief Resident Engineer.
to remove a large quantity of good slow that I have had to tell the Con- tractors to give it up and to use block work instead. They are making the blocks and I hope laying will commence in a week's time. It will thus be possible to build up the front face at a rate which will catch up
For-
The arrival of the remainder of rock. It has not been possible to get the Parker plant in September made at this work in an effective manner it possible to complete erection by as the Contractors lack lifting tackle, the end of that month and to test but the erection of the Colombo der- the whole plant as a complete unit. rick on the dam releases a small Following a few minor adjustments derrick and this will be erected in a it was working very satisfactorily in position to control the work. October and has continued so work- tunately there is now ample room on ing since that month. The method
the left bank for concreting and it is hoped that the extra work neces- devised locally for taking concrete from the
sary on the right bank will not one c.y. back-to-back mixers to fill the 4 c.y. buckets under seriously, if at all, delay the work. equipment from the U.K. Only a Work on the extension of the dam very good one. The Contractors have has proceeded steadily and much of built up an efficient team of opera- the cut-off trench has been concret- tives at the batching plant and the ed. But at the end of the month, resulting concrete of the various bad ground was encountered in the classes is of good quality.
trench at the batching plant end of be taken to reach a satisfactory bot- it, and special measures will have to
The removal of the soft tom here.
In my report for last quarter I re- ferred to the regrettable delay by the Government officials in Ceylon in
the heart.
As to the downstream face, more cutting and more laying masons are required. Expansion of the construc- tion staff and construction methods generally is now necessary.
Supply Works
Generally speaking, good progress has been made on this part of the Scheme. The work on the Treatment Works is well advanced.
The Tunnels go well, on the whole. grey clay which underlies the 5-6 ft. though somewhat behind schedule, issuing export licences for the plant of good ground in the valley which due mainly to the late deliveries of purchased from the Colombo Muni- cipality. Due to the Intervention of
the extension crosses has been con- equipment. from the U.K. Only a the Minister, which followed action
tinued. It is a difficult material to small part of the ventilating equip- taken in Colombo by the Dy. Director dig and progress is slow. I am ask- ment has arrived and the Contrac- of Public Works on his way through ing the DPW if he could lend the tors have assembled small fans and ducting obtained locally. Bad ground from U.K. to Hong Kong, the licences Contractors small drag-line for
was met 1150 ft. in from Portal B. were given, and most of the plant this work. If not perhaps the Army where timbering was necessary, but has been passed. And bad ground, also, a few hundred feet in from Portal H.
arrived in November.
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could lend one.
With the arrival of this plant
I have asked the Contractors to Improvement in the quarry, and regard this work as a major part of notably in plum production and the Contract and to increase the placing. will occur. Development labour force to the maximum the work for future supplies is behind work will carry. Soon the rains will hand and more attention must be come and make the work more diffi- paid to the stripping of soil overlying cult to do. the rock.
The total amount of mass in the
dam is now 35,000 c.y. about one quarter of that required for Stage 1.
A good start has been made on the excavation for the Lai Chi Kok Ser-
in November to the Paul Y. Con- vice Reservoir under a Contract let
struction Co.
During the quarter the drilling to
Lai Chi Kok to Tsun Wan is well in Work on the road widening from determine the extent of the soft seam underlying the rock on the
hand, and the reconstruction of the right bank was continued and finish- The masonry face on the down- bridge in Tsun Wan has been started. ed. The situation disclosed was stream. and the shuttering for the Details of the pipe line have all been studied (while Mr. Gourley was here upstream face both lag behind. The settled and it only remains to clear In November) and the decision made shuttering on the front face is so the route through Tsun Wan.
CROWN LANDS & SURVEY OFFICE
LAND SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION
Date 6/12 54
Lot No. I.L. 6875
Location
Sq. Ft.
Upset Price
Sale Price
Bowen Road
3,600
$ 14,400.00
$ 45,100.00
6·12 54
Tsun Wan I.L.31
Tsun Wan
12,000
12,000.00
52,200.00
13/12 54
K.I.L.6474
Bedford Road, Tai Kok Tsui
7,560
75,600.00
96,000.00
13/12 54
Tsun Wan I.L.32
Tsun Wan
30,000
30,000.00
98,000.00
20/12 54
10/ 1:55
17/ 1 55
K.I.L.6475 I.L.6876 I.L.6877
Larch Street. Tai Kok Tsui
4,200
42,000.00
105,000.00
Tsat Tze Mui Rd., North Point
9,600
48.000.00
255,000.00
Clovelly Path
24,000
144.000.00
144,000.00
7/ 2 55 14 2 55
Tsun Wan I.L.33
Castle Peak Road, Tsun Wan
25.000
50,000.00
75,400.00
Tsun Wan I.L.34
Tsun Wan
66,000
66.000.00
92,000.00
14/ 2:55
Tsun Wan I.L.35
Tsun Wan
32,150
96.450.00
130,500.00
21/ 2 55
Tsun Wan I.L.36
Tsun Wan
66,000
66,000.00
168,500.00
28. 2/55
Tsun Wan I.L.37
Tsun Wan
12,000
12,000.00
36,100.00
28/ 2 55
Tsun Wan I.L.38
Tsun Wan
12.000
12,000.00
38,000.00
28/ 2 55
Tsun Wan I.L.39
Tsun Wan
12,000
12.000.00
39,000.00
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