CHAPTER li, SECTION 5

Figure 2-109.

Station 1203 - Completed - Aerial View

rains and sunshine, the timbers did warp considerably. This was partially corrected by staggering the clips and increasing the size of some
of the horizontal wood frames. To maintain the

alignment tolerances required additional check-

ing by the surveyors as noted in Section 1A of
this chapter. Figure 2-109 notes Station 1203
completed. This aerial view was taken over the
Baker-Charlie Reef looking towards Station
1200. Other details for Station 1203 are shown
in figures for Stations 30, 1200, 1201, 1202 and
TANT AN
1204. Ve.

STATIONS 1204.01 - 1204.03
PUMP STATIONS - SITE CHARLIE
USER: UCRL
GENERAL. These Stations were the permanent
pumping Stations for holding the pipe array
(Station 1203) under a pressure of 1 cm. Hg.
absolute or less. Only one Station (Station
1204.03) was constructed and it contained
six
5HP vacuum pumps
permanently located on 5’-0" x 4’ x 0” x 6” thick reinforced concrete pads. An auxiliary manifold was provided
for connecting an additional four portable vacuum pumps. Salt water was used to cool the vacuum pumps. Figure 2-110 shows the pumps
installed and the status of work as 705 completed on 4 December.

ENGINEERING.Thecriteria were received on

30 April 1953. The mechanical drawing was
started on 25 May, was submitted on 24 June

and approved on 21 July. The structural work
was started on 5 October, submitted on 7 October and approved on 15 October.
CONSTRUCTION.
Work was scheduled to
commence on 1 October and to be completed by
31 January. Actual construction work wasstarted on 2 November and was compieted on 30
November.
STATION 1210-RECORDING STATION
SITE DOG - USER: LASL
GENERAL.
The Station, used for reaction
history, was an earth reinforced concrete building containing two main rooms, 12’- 8” x
34’- 8” and 25° - 2” x 28’-6". The entire building was supported on a slab 4’-0” thick. Three exterior walls and the roof slah were 7’ -0” thick.
The side wail of the larger room, and adjacent
to the doors, was 7’-0” thick while the remaining two. walls of this room and roof slab were
4’-0” thick. There was a reinforced concrete
boxed passageway which made two right angle
turns before coming out of the earth fill at a
point 30 feet from the building side wall. At the
exit and at the passageway entrance there was
a lead blast type door with a two-ton chain
hoist. The entire building was covered with a
sloping earth fill to a height of seven feet above
the highest building point.
MECHANICAL. The mechanical features included a dehumidification system similar to that

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