Like that of more than one other Shanghai enterprise, the record of the island's construction has been one of aims altered in conformity with changed conditions and requirements, During the last, few cen-farles the toil-exacting Whangpoo 'River just below the Riverside Plant of the Shanghai Power Company has been gradually "migrating" eastwards, to such an extent that When the' conservancy works commenced in 1906 the river was more than 4,000 feet wide opposite the Tungkou (Battery") Creek. The continued plan of the Conservancy has een to form a smoothly curved channel, gradually and uniformly widening towards. the mouth at Woosung, but until 1914 no funds were available for work at this place.
At that date a low brushwood and rubble stone wall was built alone the proper line of the Shanghai side of the fiver. to reduce the main channel to the desired regulated width of about 1,800 feet. A broad crescent-shaped "submerged shoal 12,000 fect long was left, extending from Riverside to Chiuchiang Creek, and in order to conserve tidal water this was allowed to remain state until 1924, the riparian pro
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