CHAPTER II, SECTION 3
eight 100-foot lengths of 34-inch wire rope and
clamps to be installed to the station detectors.
STATION:
1310
SITE:
Yvonne
USER:
LASL, EG&G
PURPOSE:
Recording Station
PARTICIPATION: 1, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 29,
32, 33, and 34
DESIGN PSI:
50 psi
CONSTRUCTION: 11-12-57/4-23-58
above the floor slab, and a 7/16-inch steel boltdown cover plate and angle frame. Three 5-inchdiameter conduits ran from the Pull Box to the
Splice Pit. The Splice Pit was a reinforced concrete man-hole type structure having a 5-footsquare by 6-foot high splicing chamber lined
with l-inch thick copper plate below a 2%feet-square sandbagged entrance shaft 614 feet
high. Thefloor level of this structure was Eleva-
tion +5.5. Three 5-inch-diameter conduits were
run from the Splice Pit toward the lagoon to the
existing beach bulkhead wall opposite.
STATION:
1311
Station 1310 required a second-story addition to REDWING Station 1310 for a new
SITE:
Irene
USER:
LASL/EG&G
PURPOSE:
Detector Room
44% feet long with an 11-foot, 10-inch ceiling
enclosed by three full-height walls and a partial
ceiling-height wall with a roof slab. Wall and
roof sections were 5-foot-thick reinforced concrete. A considerable amount of concrete cutting
and modifications to the existing earth barricades
were incidental to the room addition.
PARTICIPATION: 21
Detector Room over existing Room “D.” This
addition provided a room space 8 feet wide by
The floor plan of Station 1310 provided
six utility room spaces, a long entrance passage,
and an escape hatch vestibule. A Utility Room
was 4214x14 feet and contained two new power
centers, a lavatory and water closet, two fresh
water storage tanks, station air inlet and exhaust
pipes and fans, lighting fixtures, electrical control panels, signal panel, electrical receptacles,
and refrigerant and compressor units for dehu-
midifier package units. Room “C” was 42\x
DESIGN PSI:
None
CONSTRUCTION: 1-23-58//4-17-58
This station provided a room space 24 feet
long and tapered in width from 10% feet to 13
feet, 10 inches; it was housed in a new earthbarricaded reinforced concrete structure. Five
24-inch-diameter steel collimating pipes, 50 feet
long, were constructed between the west wall of
the station room and a retaining wall support
at the end of the pipes. Center-line elevation of
the pipes was at Elevation +11.0, and the top
of the retaining wall and earth fill was at Elevation +17.0. Access to the station room was
through a reinforced concrete tunnel section, 4
feet wide by 6% feet high, under the barricade
12 feet and contained electrical receptacles,
signal cabinet, telephone, light fixtures, electric
heaters, and two dehumidifier units. Room ‘‘D”
4516x8 feet, contained electrical receptacles,
telephone, 2 motor generator sets, copper-clad
fill to the station south wall. The roof slab over
was 14-inch-thick reinforced concrete. A continuous angle girt detail was anchored to the
west wall of the station room above and below
the collimator pipe openings to seat 28-inch-
faces surrounding the cable entrance ducts, light
fixtures, electric heaters, and two dehumidifier
scaffolds of wood construction were provided at
an instrument control panel, receptacles, telephone, light fixtures, heater and dehumidifier
unit, and a 25-kw motor generator set. The De-
portable cords, outlet receptacles, signal cabinet,
steel wall plates over a portion of the wall sur-
units. The Motor Generator Room “B”contained
square by \4-inch-thick lead plates. Five detector
the ends of the collimator pipes, each 5x214x2
feet high. The station room contained lights on
and utility and experimental power panels.
STATION:
1312
SITE:
Janet
mator slide assemblies with a portable hydraulic
USER:
LASL/EG&G
signal cabinet, telephone, and power outlet boxes
and receptacles.
PURPOSE:
Recording Station
PARTICIPATION: 2, 10, 16, 25, 27, 28, 30, 37
tector Room Addition included six collimator
pipes through the west end-wall, eight lead-
shielded openings in the north wall, four colli-
lift pump, monorail and hoist, lighting fixtures,
In addition to the main structure, provisions
were made for make-up of coaxial cables runs
to shot stations in the lagoon with a Pull Box
and a Splice Pit Structure. The Splice Pit Structure was located closer to the lagoon than the
Pull Box. The Pull Box had a 10-inch-thick floor
slab and four 10-inch-thick walls rising 12 inches
DESIGN PSI:
67 psi
CONSTRUCTION: 9-20-57/4-25-58
Station 1312 was the largest scientific construction unit built for Operation HARDTACK.
Total structural concrete poured for this structure was 3673 cubic yards. An additional 406
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