THE PROPOSED HARBOR WORKS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3755, 28 July 1883, Page 2

THE PROPOSED HARBOR WORKS.

The engineer of the Harbor Board received this day from Mr Culcheth, of Melbourne, a tracing of the general plan for the proposed new harbor for Napier. The plan shows the proposed M'orks to consist of an extension of tho present mole, and tho construction of an embankment extending round the Bluff, also a light embankment .along Harding-road, with groins, ten in number, each projecting about 200 feet into the sea, extending from the town point of the Bluff to the present works. The three groins at the Bluff arc of heavy construction, while the others are light. These are intended to check the boulders travelling to the harbor, and to divert the shingle. Tho scheme proposes to maintain a depth of 20 feet at the wharves near the Iron Pot at low water, and 12 feet at the Pctane bridge. In the estimate of cost allowance is made for providing nearly double the length of groins that in tho opinion of Mr Culcheth will be found necessary. The estimates are as follows:—Preliminary expenses and works, contingencies, and engineer's commission, £27,107; protection from boulders and shingle, £39,500; maintenance of channel leading to inner harbor, £76,700; wharfage accommodation, including the improvement of existing quay, and forming dray way to new quays, £10o,940; total, £2-10,247. Mr Culcheth believes that there will be no difficulty in maintaining the depth of 20 feet at low water in the channel onco the boulders are removed, and that the increased depth may be expected to reduce tho tide way to about four and a half knots per hour.