EMBANKMENTS UNDAMAGED.

Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 8

EMBANKMENTS UNDAMAGED.

| WEATHERED STORM WELL i WORKS OFF CAMPBELL POINT. i RF.A??ITUNG REPORTS MADE. ! Most reassuring reports have been releelved from the Public Works Department and from the Auckland Harbour • Board upon the effects of last Friday's storm on the waterfront railway embankI merit and the eastern breakwater. Both these works were exposed to the full force of tiie _.tle and were washed by heavy seas throughout the day. 'it is the worst nor'easier we have experienced in tbe last twelve months."' remarked an official to-day. "but the amount of earth removed from the top of the embankment in Judge's Bay was infinitesimal. The fact that some was removed is not surprising, in view oi the newness of tho filling and the unusual force of the seas, but the amount wa? slight, and there has been a decided consolidation at the outer end. The work is now proceeding beyond the end of the proposed station yard."' An invesigation showed that the stone protecting wall along the seaward side of the embankment had stood the test of the storm well, and that the extent of the consolidation was quite marked. The disturbance to the eastern breakwater also was slight. This was pounded by the gale, but it is estimated that not more than two or three hundred yards of stone, at. the most, wert washed down. It was a purely surface effect. The breakwater is really a huge embankment standing on a base of from 120 to l-°.O feet, and running out aboivr 2100 feet from the masonry wall neaT Campbell's Point. The bank contains loo.tiOO yards of stone and consists of boulders varying from three or four tons down to a few pounds. From time to time a small quantity of stone is required to repair the effects of heavy weather, but the amount of stone used to date is still 7000 yards inside the estimated quantity of 1G3.200 after allowing for all settlement. Apart from storms the breakwater suffers scarcely any damage. Although the current has a speed of from two and a half to three knots at a distance of fifty feet from the formation, it is stated that alongside the face the tide moves at not more than a-quarter or half a knot, because of the rough material that forms the deflecting wall and the friction it creates.