Public works . ike has been constructed and when thespace that it encloses is filled in, it will add 45 acresto one end of the island. This will make the site forthe $500,000 James Scott memorial fountain, whichis now in the course of construction. This reclaimedland is estimated to have a value of $20,000 an acreand will increase the size of the island to over 900acres. In order to carry on this work, the city engineersstarted a reclamation program, in connection withwhich there are some unique engineering instance, the dumping dock, where earth isdumped into city scows to be tow
Public works . ike has been constructed and when thespace that it encloses is filled in, it will add 45 acresto one end of the island. This will make the site forthe $500,000 James Scott memorial fountain, whichis now in the course of construction. This reclaimedland is estimated to have a value of $20,000 an acreand will increase the size of the island to over 900acres. In order to carry on this work, the city engineersstarted a reclamation program, in connection withwhich there are some unique engineering instance, the dumping dock, where earth isdumped into city scows to be towed to the island,is 200 feet long and 115 feet wide at the riversedge and is reinforced with 46 tons of steel, andhas as a unique feature a flaring edge, which over-hangs 14 feet and permits a scow to get half itswidth under the dock, which allows the trucks todump the earth directly into the middle of the scows. The earth is hauled to this dock from the differentconstruction jobs throughout the city, the truck. 282 PUBLIC WORKS Vol. 52, No. 16 owners paying the city $ a load for the privi-lege of dumping. This revenue already is at therate of $100,000 a year. The contractors are soglad to use the dock for disposing of excavatedmaterial that the city had to put two men on thedock as traffic officers to see that the trucks unloadquickly and move off the dock, eliminating all tie-ups. Three scows valued at $30,000 each with a ca-pacity of 650 cubic yards or 130 truck loads, werepurchased by the city in New York and towed toDetroit through the New York barge canal. Tugs tow the loaded scows to a point oppositethe dike, where a basin 17 feet deep, 200 feet wideand 700 feet long has been dredged in the bottom ofthe river. Here the scows dump the load throughtrap doors in their bottoms. A hydraulic dredgesucks up this earth and forces it through a 16-footpipe to the area enclosed by the dike. By addinglengths of pipe the soup can be pumped to anyspot within the dike. The dredge b
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