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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

Chung and extensions to two large culverts in the Kai Tak area are under construction.

PORT WORKS

The production of an engineering report on a proposed con- tainer terminal at Kwai Chung involved extensive site investigation work including sounding surveys, marine borings, a geophysical survey, a survey of tidal currents, wave measurements and observa- tions, silt load measurements, investigations of possible borrow areas and test piling. The report was published in July.

At Aldrich Bay breakwater, which is being constructed to form a typhoon shelter, most of the rock core was completed and the protective surface of armour rock is being placed. Work started on a new pier at North Point for the Fire Services Department and a landing was built at Tai Long Pai to service a navigational beacon.

In Kowloon, a seawall at Tai Wan was completed, as was a new salt water pumping station at Yau Ma Tei to serve the south Kowloon flushing system and the air-conditioning plant of the Yau Ma Tei government offices.

All the civil engineering work for the refuse disposal incinerator at Lai Chi Kok, including the construction of a turbo-alternator house, was completed. The incinerator itself was commissioned and formally opened in February. Consulting engineers were appointed, and plant ordered, for a second incinerator on an adjacent site.

At Tai Kok Tsui, a new passenger ferry pier is being built and an area of seabed is being reclaimed to provide land for a bus and ferry concourse. The pier replaces a pier at Mong Kok which will be absorbed in another reclamation for an extension to Tong Mei Road. A new passenger ferry pier is under construction at Kwun Tong.

In the New Territories, at Yim Tin Tsai, Sai Kung, a breakwater is being built to provide a typhoon shelter of about 28 acres. The rock core has been finished and armour rock protection is being placed. Work continued on 1,000 feet of seawall in Castle Peak Bay and a start was made on a 250 feet long extension to Cheung Chau Praya. The seawall at Pillar Island, Kwai Chung, with associated