PROGRESS ON THE BRIDGE JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS

These pictures were taken on 18th December 2014

The pre-stressed beams are still not installed because their lifting cranes must still be used elsewhere on another bridge construction

So they dug up the temporary fill and reinstated the slope of the river bank protecting it with gabions and concrete surface, so that flow of water during floods will not be hampered under the bridge.

See for yourself if you like them.

 Note the one row of gabions at the bottom of the concreted slope.

 Full view of the concreted slope

 Excavator stabilising the bottom of slope near bottom of river

 Excavating the RH bank to do the same type of concreting

Meanwhile down below, a crane is hoping to catch fish from the river.

SLOW PROGRESS THAT'S WHY I HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATING THIS BLOG REGULARLY

Yes, there are activities on the bridge but there seemed to be not much work completed.

It is nearly Christmas and they still have not installed the prestressed concrete beams across the river.

Instead they dug out the temporary backfilled that was supposed to be used to drag the beams nearer the pile caps.  I believe the contractors methodology may not have been approved by the authorities so they must have our submitted a new method.

Anyway the first set of photos were taken on 14 Nov 2014 while the completed backfilled works on the retaining wall was taken on 11 December.

 Moving granular earth to fill behind the wall

 The temporary fill removed before the beams were installed. Also the beam bearings still not fixed.

 Very muddy water which must have come from the 200 acres hill cutting at Togudon near Kg Notorus

 View of RHS of river bank

 More earth fill works

Last two pics taken on 11 December showing the final backfilled works behind the retaining wall. Hmmm very expensive wall this is and lucky owner of the land above.
The excavator is even shaping the clay earthfill on top of the wall to match the existing shape of the hill.