The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-21
MAY SUGGEST
A BETTER DAM

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: afterwards, but I cannot possibly d.
this [ am now under contract I,
build a reservoir bigger than that her,
0 for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
6 Company and to come here at all / hat
to get a thirty days leave of absenc,
from the company, which 1 cannot
oyerstay- I am also preparing data
2 for the Anaheim Union Water Com
pany in a big law suit involving i'm
mense water rights and I have prom
ised to tabulate my two years work
for them at once. So it would be inn
possible for me to stay here any longer
now that the work I came to do is
| done.
81 was asked at the dam today to
suggest what work should be done in
the interim pending the arrival of my
report. This was kind of a leading
question which of course I could not
answer, as [ did not wish to give any
| 1ntimation to anyone as to what my
I>report would probably be. I told them
| there was one place, however where
they could work without my report af-
fecting what they should do. This was
| in the reinforcing of the concrete core
| wall, where I suggested that they
| should cut trench in the bedrock be-
| side the concrete and after cementing
| the cracks and making it absolutely
watertight build up reinforcement.
PROBED THE "MUsH PILE"
''They had the pit over the mush
| pile pumped out for me today and I
made an examination there I found
that I could push an iron rod down
through the formation to bed rock,
which is nearer the bottom of the core
wall al that point than it is a few
feet away. In fact, Mr.. Rowland told
me that L could sound twice the depth
eighteen feet farther in. In this pit
found the same formation as was I'M
covered in the trench under the drain
age pipe back in the reservoir the
semf-clay belt apparently extending
right under the dam, with the water
running on top of it. 1t was running
into the pit in little spurts in the same
way as I found it running in the
trench. This was an important matter
in the mination.''
WOULD NOT FORECAST REPORT. |
In no way would Mr.. Kellogg init |
mate the probable tenor of his findings |
from the examination
ST realize how anxious the people |
here are to find out about the DAM |
he said, but I will have to ask you to
wait. The department is just as |
anxious to know as you are Mr.. Hol-
1oway asked me today to give him |
line on what should be DONE but told |
him, as 1 am telling you, that it was
impossible for me to give any advance |
opinions.
1T would not be fair for me to say
now for when I have arranged my
notes and compared my opinions with
that of the authorities on the various
subjects I may find it necessary to
amend what I now have in mind. And
then I do not want to mix up in any
arguments with anyone. / am not here
as a consulting engineer, but simply to
give my opinion
WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING.
There was a little discussion at the
dam during one of Mr.. Kellogg's visits
which illustrates the way in which
some of the work there has been done,
or at least the way in which the re-
sponsibility has been shifted around
from one to another of those in charge.
According to the specifications the
core trench on the Waikiki end of the
big work is to be filled by sluicing in
the earth from the bank above. |
this trench extends the big
lumber core wall built up from the
sills resting on the earth bottom. The
problem which presented itself to the :
examining engineer was the holding of I
this lumber wall in place when the
trench began to fill up with water, and ,
with a view of acquiring some infor-
nation on the subject he appealed to =
=. H. Smith, the engineer in charge
Mr. Smith sized up the core wall !
when the question was asked. THAT,
think, is a matter for the contractor
o figure on" he said.
'tOh," said Mr.. Kellogg, IT thought
would ask if you had any plan to I
carry out in the matter, for 1 never
saw core wall put in in just this way
md I wanted to know how to handle
t. I think I will ask the contractors
oreman.''
So Gus Kenton, the contractors
'ight-hand man, was called over to the I
How are you going to keep the core
vail straight and in place when you I
urn the water into the ditch?'' asked =
Mr.. Kellogg, springing the conundrum
any preliminary leading up
Mr.. Kenton also sized up the fifty y
feet of lumber and ran his fingers
through his hair.
''Well,' he said, after a short pause,
that is up to the engineer in charge"
But the engineer says it is up to
you,'' said Mr.. kellogg.
We'll. then" answered Mr. Kenton,
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