CHAPTER II, SECTION 6

Figure 2-210.

Charlie Causeway - Construction of Bulkhead

side only with a three-inch thick timber bulkhead. Figure 2-210 notes this construction and
status of work on 15 September. The bulkhead
is supported by 60-pound used rail driven on
four-foot centers, without tie-backs. The pipeline
required approximately 32 feet of this right-of-

way; the 24-foot access road, including safety
shoulders, required 40 feet; and the shoulder
on the ocean side for pipeline construction was
15 feet wide. After partial completion of fill
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and rough grading in mid-July 1953, observations of wave action under severe wind and
tide conditions indicated that the ocean side
bulkhead as originally designed was unneces-

sary. A Contractor recommendation that this
be deleted, at a saving of approximately $60,
000, was approved on 13 August 1953. The
DUKWramp was relocated from the ocean side
to the lagoon side of the working area at the
end of the causeway where natural accretion

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