Sand Bag Barriers to be Made Along the Bund Hankow, May 27, 1982.
'An extraordinary meeting'of ratepayers of the S.A. D. No. 8) was held this afternoon' to support a resolution for the building of a retaining. wall. along the bund, and thus come ince line with a general scheme for the protection against Further floods in the Hankow Area.
calling the meeting to order, ex:
"fae Director, "Mtr. T.T. "Quo, plained the objects which, he "said, Were twofold (1) to proceed with Bacheme involving the erection of 4 retaining wall along the Bund of S.A D. No. J and (2). to devise sche describing last Ways and means to finance the Year's flood situation and the losses Yulfered, the chairman dwelt on stops which had been taken to Drevent a repetition of this unhappy State of affairs and mentioned that a sub-committee which had. been Appointed had recommended amongst other" things, the erection of the retaining wall. The Couneit Were of the unanimous opinion that, Ju the event of the other contract" ing parties to. the general scheme undertaking, satisfactorily, the caution of their respective sections, no. real purpose would-be served Uhrough failure on the part of the Special District No. 3 to take part fand in, this connection considerable expenditure in tine had been in-Volved in ascertaining, as far as possible, the true situation and the' Attitude' of the other participants in scheme, The French Municipalities 0 build wall wall along the Bund in. $,/A.-D, No. 1 was nearing. completion and that section fronting SrA, D. No. 2. was. being under~ taken. "The had spent considerable time and energy on the general scheme and, in view Of these eireumnstances, members, of the Council considered it. desirable to" approach ratepayers for the necessary authority. to participate Jn'the scheme: failure on their part to preserve unity. would lay the Municipality open to severe critie-'Continuing, the chairman Turning now to the scheme is presented. to you with thr inet "variations of a scheme for the prevention of flooding from the river fronting on this district and Tpropove. to. confine myself: bile statement in relation to ead Scheme No. 1.—This. proposal for the construction of a. solid rein~ foreed concrete wall retaining along the whole length of the Bund on the riverside of the. grass plots to. th 53ft. level, banking up the gra plots to form a sloping bank behin the "same.
Scheme No, 2.—Is for the con struction of © wall similar to that In'the foregoing scheme, solid to a wight of Bift. in. level, with concrete posts spaced about" sft. apart and so arranged as to take three Specially made concrete board which would be slid in to bring the Tovet of the wall up to at least the Saft. level. These boards could position as shown when The advantage of this the view of the river from the Bund hot be obstructed, 3 or Foreshore Reis proposal embraces reclamation of the foreshore and the erection of a new bund wall to rejoining up with the at the Customs" House, Wall at this end about 180ft. and ejecting from the existing Bund at the. junction with the S.A. D-No. 2 about 16iit, a ling which would not interrupt the natural flow of the river along this front, The scheme involving the reclamation of the foreshore may be con sidered at this time and, of the two Femaining schemes, "your. Council fatter careful consideration recom-Reng for your adoption, ashame fo, 2 a8, prevented to you.
Te Temalns now to discuss with you the expenditure which will be Involved should you adopt any of the foregoing schemes and the devise ing of ways and means to meet this expenditure.
Te has. been maintained that the cost of the projected scheme should to the ratepayers; jets and concessions but Should be recovered out of the allot= iment of American Wheat or the Dyke Tax Fund, or both, and in anticipation of contributions. from these "sources (it being decided to act independently. in the matter of
application was made through recog the construction of retaining wall) hised flannels, with what" resale hall acquaint you. It is a fact that the Hupeh Flood Relief Commission applied for and obtained 8,000 tons of" American" wheat but this inspires was inadequate for the work. to be undertaken and a resolution was adopted, as follows:—
"As the 5,000 tons of American wheat granted us by our head-quarters is far from adequate for what we actually need in constructing the retaining walls a fund. should be raised in future by special levies on the residents and/or ratepayers of the districts where the walls will be built. by this commission to make-up the deficit thereof."
It. is, alleged that the above special levies will take the form of Jone month's additional rent and/or fan increase in the percentage of jand and property tax for one year Jor more, Application was made for the allotment of 300 tons of wheat but this was withdrawn, Referring now to the dyke tax it has been stated that this levy was designed for the repairing and maintaining of the dykes of Hupeh Province and not for building any new dykes such as is proposed along the bund. "The average. annual sum collected by way of dyke dues in the past four years approximates to In view of the foregoing contentions it Wwould appear that the adopted, will require to ced by the ratepayers them.
and wish to point out here! that both the Freneh'and Japanese Municipalities propose to. recover the expenditure' involved, asa consequence of the participation in the Scheme, from within the confines of their respective concessional areas, Nanking, May 31.
As a. precautionary _measure against the possible flooding of the Yangtze river as a result of the recent continued rainfall, the Direc-or of Public Works has te-day ordered sand bag' barriers to be placed along the Bund.
He has also ordered that the dykes along the Yangtze be strenghthened and made higher so as to prevent any possible overflow.
The Nanking authorities are rushing preparations to prevent any repetition of the Nanking floods last year. 'The Director of the Public works department of the 'Municipal government to-day per~ sonally inspected the river" front at Hsiakwan, Measures decided include the building of dykes' along the river front and the collecting of sandbags and timbers for emergency use. understood that strong dykes are! now completed between Wuhu and Chingkiang on both sides of the Yangtze. In April dykes were completed between Nanking and Chirkiang. The section Nanking and Wahu also. wi pleted lest month. According to experts the "Nanking district is now safe from the flood menace
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