Very effective dredging work has accomplished by the Whangpoo ervaney Board in 1929. D the year, the Board has had two urge bucket dredgers, three large rab dredgers, one small bucket rodger, and one small grab dredger working almost continuously. A volume of nearly 2,900,000 cubic ards of mud had been excavated ud with very minute exceptions his has all been pumped ashore for be purpose of reclaiming land. The] ard has two large mud pumps ach capable of pumping _ashore early 1,000 cubic yards of mud er hour, The mud is dropped from the rodger into steel lighters and towed y steam tugs to the pumps where is liquified to the consistency of ridge and pumped into areas surrounded by mud dykes. On one evasion during the year, the 28 nob diameter pipe line' extended bout 4,000 ft, from the pump to the outlet, The dredging has been done prin-ipally on the various convex spits vhich occur along the river, but, n addition to this, some deep hannd dredging has been don? ear Black Point and, by the small-dredgers, over 700,000 cubic yards f mud has been excavated under contract for wharf owners in order o.maintain deep berths for shiping.
The reclamation works consist of several small areas done under contact for riparian owners and two arge areas, one just below the oint. and another at the mouth of he river, The Board's numerous dredgers, ngs, lighters, and attendant vessels, 8 Well as its various items of contruction plant have been repaired a he Board's workyard this side of Voosting. One or two obsolete mits have been replaced and, at he end of the year, a contract was intered into for the replacement of me of the large bucket dredgers.
Among other interesting items in he Board's work has been the lasting of the wreck of the st Warren situated near the Interna. anal Dock and the building of a jew school at its workyard for the children of the workmen employed, the extent of the work done dur-the year is greater than it has veen for several years but has not made a new record owing to some leerease in working hours.
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